Elandsberg - Hogsback
Elandsberg is a mountain within Eastern Cape and is northwest of Gaika’s Kop and Hogsback and northeast of Seymour. Elandsberg has an elevation of 2,006 metres. (https://mapcarta.com/14358440)
Nodes
Aloe striatula
Chironia krebsii
Senecio
Anacampseros rufescens
Bergeranthus leightoniae
Aloiampelos striatula
Scilla nervosa
Disa
Kniphofia northiae
Pages
Taxonomy term
Erica woodii
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Named after John Medley Wood (1827-1915) farmer, trader and botanist in Kwa-Zulu Natal, curator of Durban Botanic Garden from 1882 and founder of the Natal Herbarium
Euryops
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Gk. eurys = large or broad; ops = eye or face; referring to the large showy capitula or flower head.
FABACEAE
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Faba, Latin, a bean.
Geranium
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L. Gk. geranos = a crane. The seed pod resembles a crane’s head and beak.
Hebenstretia
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For Johann Christian Hebenstreit (1720–1791), German physician and botanist. He studied medicine at the University of Leipzig from 1740–1748 and practised in Naumburg before becoming professor of botany and natural history at the Russian Academy of Sciences at St Petersburg. In 1751 he became a personal physician to Count Kyrylo Rosumowskyj, the president of the academy, for two years and was stationed in the Ukraine before returning to Leipzig. In 1755 he accepted the position of professor of botany and natural history in St Petersburg, but deteriorating health forced him to return to Leipzig in 1961. Little is known of his life thereafter.
Heteromorpha
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Gk. hetero- = different; morpha = shape; referring to the variability in appearance between species from area to area (Palmer).
Hypoxis
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Gk. hyp(o)- = beneath, less than; oxys = sharppointed, sour; alluding to the leaves, which are acid; ‘Quod folia sint acidula (Hypoxis)’.
Lobelia
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For Mathias de L’Obel (Lobel, Lobelius) (1538–1616), Flemish botanist, traveller, plant collector. He studied medicine in Leuven and Montpellier and practised medicine from 1571–1581 in Antwerp and Delft, where he was physician to William, Prince of Orange. In 1584 he left the Netherlands for England to escape the civil war and never returned. He became physician to King James I of England and also the king’s botanist. His major work, written in collaboration with Pierre Pena, was Stirpium Adversaria Nova (1571), which describes some 1 500 species in the vicinity of Montpellier, also of Tyrol, Switzerland and the Netherlands. A second volume, Plantarum Historia Stirpium, was published in 1576 with more than 2 000 illustrations, and a further work, Icones Stirpium, seu, Plantarum Tam Exoticarum in 1591.
Lotononis
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Combination of the two generic names Lotus and Ononis, both of which are legumes.
Lotononis alpina
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From the Latin alpinus = 'alpine'
Notobubon laevigatum
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From the Latin laevigatus = ‘smooth’
Ornithogalum juncifolium
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From the Latin junus = 'rush' and folius = 'leaves'
Phylica
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Gk. phyllikos = leafy; referring to the plentiful foliage.
Protea
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Gk. After Proteus, a mythological sea-god, who could change his form at will, taking new shapes. Seemingly Linnaeus was so over-awed by the variety of plants sent to him from the Cape that he named the genus Protea. The authors could not confirm this.
Psammotropha mucronata var. mucronata
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From the Latin mucronatus = ‘sharp pointed’.