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
Kniphofia
Spiloxene
Romulea
Corymbium
Lichtensteinia
Galaxia ovata
Nemesia barbata
Wachendorfia brachyandra
Nemesia
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Taxonomy term
Microloma
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Gk. mikros = very small; loma = edge or fringe; referring to the hairy corolla tube. The hairs are minute.
Moraea
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Linnaeus married Sara Elisabeth Moraea; her father was Dr. Johan Moraeus, the town physician of Falun. The name "Morea" was originally given by Philip Miller after "Robert More of Shropshire", but was taken over by Linnaeus and changed to Moraea.
Nemesia
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Gk. nemesion, nemeseion from nemo = to distribute, to enjoy, to pasture, to feed; or nemos = wooded pasture, glade, a grove; name used by Dioscorides for a similar plant, referring to their habitat.
Ornithogalum
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Gk. ornithos = bird; gala = milk, presumably referring to the colostrum-like, high fat secretions produced by the Colombidae (‘pigeon’s milk’) and stored in the crop for feeding the young. Maybe this somewhat resembles the gooey sap that exudes from the cut stems. Some authors suggest that the name merely refers to the milky whiteness of some flowers, while ‘bird’s milk’ to the ancient Greeks was a colloquial expression for something wonderful.
Oxalis
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From the Greek oxys = sharp, sour or acid and (h)als = salt. The plant is frequently consumed for its sour taste caused by the oxalic acid, particularly the flowering stalks of O. pes-caprae. In large quantities the oxalic acid inhibits digestion and in stock leads to the condition 'dikpens' or bloated belly.
Pelargonium
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Gk. pelargos = a stork; referring to the beak of the fruit which resembles a stork’s bill (cf Geranium, Erodium).
Romulea
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For the legendary Romulus, founder and first king of Rome.
Romulea hirsuta
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From the Latin hirsutus = ‘hairy’
Cormous geophyte, 6--10 cm, corms symmetrical, bell-shaped, stem branching above ground. Basal leaves 2, sometimes solitary. Flowers pink to rose or coppery orange with dark marks at edge of yellow cup. Aug.--Sept. Sandstone or clay slopes and flats, NW, SW (Clanwilliam to Elim).
Spiloxene
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Gk. spilos = a spot, stain; xenos = host or stranger; referring to the spotted base of the tepals in some species.