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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Aspalathus
Cyathocoma hexandra
Ursinia serrata
Adenandra fragrans
Ixia
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Liparia hirsuta
Ehrharta setacea
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Taxonomy term
Geissorhiza
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Gk. geisson = title; rhiza = root; alluding to the regular overlapping of the corm tunics in some species.
Helipterum canescens
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From the Latin canescens = ‘becoming white’
Ixia
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Ancient Gk. Ixia = a Linnaeus-derived name for a plant noted for the variability of its flower colour or Gk. ixos = mistletoe (viscum), birdlime; referring to the viscous sap (WPU Jackson).
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.
Lobelia jasionoides
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Muraltia
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After John M. von Muralt, Swiss botanist and author; flourished around 1576.
Osteospermum
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Gk. osteon = bone; sperma = seed. The achenes are bone-hard.
Osteospermum polygaloides
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Resembling members of the Genus Polygala (Polygalaceae)
Penaea cneorum
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Named after the genus Cneorum, the spurge olive (Rutaceae) from the Western Mediterranean (C. tricoccon) and Canary Islands (C. pulverulentum). It has yellow flowers in four-parts and fruit in three-parts.
Psoralea
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Gk. psoraleos = scabby. The plants are covered with rough warty-looking glandular dots.
Psoralea usitata
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