Grootvadersbosch National Park
This is a Cape Nature run park on the foothills and mountains of the Langeberg to the east of Suurbraak in the Southern Cape. There are many endemic plant species of which it is particularly rich in the endemic family Peneaceae.
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Phylica propinqua
Wahlenbergia parvifolia
Oldenburgia paradoxa
Aspalathus angustifolia
Euryops
Osteospermum polygaloides
Mammalia
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Taxonomy term
Aspalathus
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From aspalathos, a scented bush that grew in Greece, now in the related genus Astragalus.
Aspalathus angustifolia
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From the Latin angustus = ‘narrow’; and folius = ‘leaf’.
Athanasia crithmifolia
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From the Greek ‘crithmi’ / ‘krithe’ meaning ‘barley’; and the Latin ‘folia’ / ‘folium’ meaning ‘leaf’.
Burchellia bubalina
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Commemorating Burchell, a 19th-century English explorer, British naturalist, traveller, artist and author. He discovered and documented many species during his travels through Southern Africa.
Disa gladioliflora
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Ehrharta setacea
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From the Latin setaceus meaning ‘bearing bristles’
Elytropappus glandulosus
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From the Latin glandulosa / glandulosus meaning ‘covered with glands’
Erica
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Gk. ereike = to break. The name used for a heath by Theophrastus (372–287 BCE) and Pliny the Elder. The stems are brittle and break easily (Lindsay); or possibly but less likely because of the ability of the plant to break up bladder stones (Paxton’s Botanical Dictionary).
Euryops
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Gk. eurys = large or broad; ops = eye or face; referring to the large showy capitula or flower head.
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