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David Gwynne-Evans (David)
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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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Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
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David Gwynne-Evans (David)
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Phylica propinqua
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
09/11/2017 - 7:40pm
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Wahlenbergia parvifolia
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Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
04/02/2013 - 4:18pm
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Oldenburgia paradoxa
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Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
04/02/2013 - 4:58pm
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Aspalathus angustifolia
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
09/11/2017 - 5:05pm
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Euryops
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Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
10/11/2017 - 9:06am
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Osteospermum polygaloides
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Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
10/11/2017 - 8:40am
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Mammalia
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
10/11/2017 - 7:59am
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Aspalathus
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Short etymology:
From aspalathos, a scented bush that grew in Greece, now in the related genus Astragalus.
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Aspalathus angustifolia
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Short etymology:
From the Latin angustus = ‘narrow’; and folius = ‘leaf’.
Description:
Erect or decumbent shrublet, 15--50 cm. Leaves 1-foliolate, lanceolate, pungent, 3--5-veined from the base. Flowers 1--6 at the branch tips, bright yellow to partly reddish, keel hairy, calyx glabrous. Oct.--Apr. Lowland fynbos or renosterbos-fynbos scrub, 260--460 m, NW, SW, LB, SE (Bokkeveld Mts to Port Elizabeth).S
Athanasia crithmifolia
(Draadblaar Klaaslouwbos)
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Short etymology:
From the Greek ‘crithmi’ / ‘krithe’ meaning ‘barley’; and the Latin ‘folia’ / ‘folium’ meaning ‘leaf’.
Description:
Shrub to 2 m. Leaves pinnatisect with long linear lobes. Flower heads discoid, in simple or compound terminal corymbs, yellow, paleate, florets 30--65, glandular hairy in a basal ring. Mainly Oct.--Jan. Sandy flats and slopes, often along drainage lines, NW, SW (Piketberg to Hermanus and Riviersonderend Mts).
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Burchellia bubalina
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Short etymology:
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.
Description:
Shrub or small tree to 5 m. Leaves opposite, elliptic, glossy above, margins revolute. Flowers few in terminal heads, tubular, velvety, orange. Sept.--Dec. Mainly in forests, LB, SE (Grootvadersbos to Mpumalanga).
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Disa gladioliflora
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Description:
Slender tuberous geophyte to 50 cm. Leaves dry at flowering, basal, linear. Flowers few in a lax raceme, white to pink, often with darker markings, spur slender, 6--14 mm long, lateral sepals oblong, 8--16 mm long, petals acute. Feb.--May. Sandstone slopes, KM, LB, SE (Swartberg to Tsitsikamma Mts).S
Ehrharta setacea
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Short etymology:
From the Latin setaceus meaning ‘bearing bristles’
Description:
Perennial to 60 mm. Leaves in 2 ranks, linear-lanceolate, rolled. Spikelets in a raceme, green to purple, glumes half to as long as spikelets, sterile lemmas smooth to granular, glabrous, tips canoe-shaped. Sept.--Jan. High rocky slopes in damp areas, SW, LB (Cape Peninsula to Riversdale).S
Elytropappus glandulosus
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Short etymology:
From the Latin glandulosa / glandulosus meaning ‘covered with glands’
Description:
Glabrescent or woolly shrublet to 50 cm. Leaves linear with involute margins, glandular-hairy, d adpressed or spreading and twisted. Flower heads discoid, few in axillary clusters forming slender spikes, mauve, 2(--3)-flowered, florets tubular. Mar.--June. Sandstone slopes, NW, SW, LB (Cedarberg to Langeberg Mts: Swellendam).G
Erica
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Short etymology:
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).
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Euryops
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Short etymology:
Gk. eurys = large or broad; ops = eye or face; referring to the large showy capitula or flower head.
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