Goudini Mountain
Mountain behind (n of Goudini Spa). Burned 2016. Known for near endemic - Salvia thermarum, named after the hot spring. It also has red bird-pollinated plant.
Nodes
Lebeckia
Untitled
Lachenalia
Micranthus tubulosus
Babiana
Dimorphotheca
Euphorbia tuberosa
Pelargonium
Nemesia barbata
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Taxonomy term
Babiana
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Unusual among South African plants in the name being derived from the vernacular Dutch, "baviaantjie", Afrikaans "bobbejaantjie" or its Cape corruption "babiaantjie". The baboon, bobbejaan, is partial to the corms.
Bulbine
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La. bulbus = an onion or bulb. A misnomer in that the plants do not have a bulbous base.
Corymbium
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Gk. korymbos = a cluster; referring to a flat-topped or rounded clustered inflorescence with the lower petals longer that the upper (i.e. a corymb).
Cyphia bulbosa
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From the Latin bulbosa = 'having bulbs'
Diascia
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Gk. di- = two; askion = wineskin, bladder, belly; referring to the two lateral corolla pouches.
Dimorphotheca
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Gk. di- = two; morphe = form; theke =a fruit (a case or container); referring to the two different forms of cypselae (fruit) produced by the ray and disk flowers: those of the ray flowers wingless, three-cornered; those of the disk flattened and two-winged.
Galaxia ovata
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From the Latin ovatus = ‘egg-shaped’
Gladiolus
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La. gladiolus = a small sword; referring to the sword-like shape of the leaves.
Heliophila
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Gk. (h)elios = sun; philein = to love. The plant likes a sunny position.
Hemimeris
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Gk. hemi- = half; meros = a part or fragment; referring to the flower that is cut away on one side, that is, lacking a spur.
Homeria
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Gk. omereo = to meet together; referring to the filaments being united around the style.
Kniphofia
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For Johann(es) Hieronymus Kniphof (1704–1763), German physician, lecturer, professor of medicine at the University of Erfurt (1737), becoming dean of the medical faculty (1747) and rector from 1661 until his death. Author of a folio of natureprinted illustrations of plants in 1733, followed by a significantly expanded second edition in 1747 and third edition in 1757–1759 containing 1 200 botanical images that were produced by a somewhat unique process, whereby dried plant specimens were coated with printer’s ink and pressed on paper, resulting in a silhouette effect. His book Botanica in Originali Seu Herbarium Vivum (1757–1764) was the first significant work to follow Linnaeus’s nomenclature.
Lachenalia
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For Werner de Lachenal (1736–1800), Swiss professor of botany and anatomy at the University of Basel from 1776, eminent for his knowledge of European plants. He obtained his PhD in 1763. He was a pupil of Haller, who was one of his main correspondents, providing him with details of flora and their location around Basel, the Jura mountains, Alsat and Bruntrutain. He was a friend of Linnaeus. He authored several monographs in Acta Helvetica. While at the university he substantially improved its botanical garden, the oldest in Switzerland, that had fallen into disrepair. He continually strived to obtain funds to reconstruct and develop the garden and to pay for its gardener. He opened the garden to the public to cover expenditures.
Lebeckia
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Named by Thunberg after an obscure botanist of whom we can find no trace.
Lichtensteinia
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Lichtensteinia (q.v.).
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