Haarwegskloof Renosterveld Reserve
The largest intact remnant of renosterveld in the world. >500ha (2016). It is owned by WWF, and managed by the Overberg Renosterveld Conservation Trust. At least ten new species as of 2016. NW of De Hoop.
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Nerine humilis
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Polhillia
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For Dr Roger Marcus Polhill (1937– ), botanist at Kew Gardens, authority on legumes, plant collector in the Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana and Malawi, and editor of Flora of Tropical East Africa 1966–1997.
Polhillia curtisiae
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Curtisiae is named after Odette Curtis - Founder and director of Renosterveld Conservation Education Trust which championed WWF to purchase critically important renosterveld in the Southern Cape and to create a reserve for many threatened species.
Pollichia
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For Johann Adam Pollich (1741–1780), German doctor, botanist, entomologist, naturalist and author. After completing his medical studies in Strasbourg, he practised medicine for a while before turning to natural sciences in 1764. He published numerous works relating to physiology and body structure (1763), the history of the plants in the Palatinate, an area of southwestern Germany, titled Historia plantarum in Palatinatu (1776–1777) with CF Schwan (1733–1815), descriptions of some insects (1779), and posthumously two more works on insects (1781, 1783).
Prismatocarpus
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Gk. prisma = a thin saw, hence angular; karpos = fruit. The slender inferior ovary becomes greatly elongated; the fruits are shaped like prisms.
Relhania
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For Reverend Richard Relhan (1754–1823), Irish botanist, bryologist, lichenologist and plant collector. He was born in Dublin, educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained an MA degree (1779), and became chaplin of Kings College, Cambridge. While there, he studied and collected plants in the neighbourhood, publishing a book Flora Cantabrigiensis (1785). He became a Fellow of the Royal Society (1787) and one of the founders of the Linnaean Society (1787). Later, he became rector in Lincolnshire and devoted himself to a scholarly study of the works of Tacitus.
Relhania
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For Reverend Richard Relhan (1754–1823), Irish botanist, bryologist, lichenologist and plant collector. He was born in Dublin, educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained an MA degree (1779), and became chaplin of Kings College, Cambridge. While there, he studied and collected plants in the neighbourhood, publishing a book Flora Cantabrigiensis (1785). He became a Fellow of the Royal Society (1787) and one of the founders of the Linnaean Society (1787). Later, he became rector in Lincolnshire and devoted himself to a scholarly study of the works of Tacitus.
Rhus
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Gk. rhous, from rhodos = red (the word can be traced back for centuries); referring to the fruits or autumn leaves of some species.
Satyrium
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Referring to the two-horned satyr, a demigod in Greek mythology, half man, half goat; possibly from satyrion, a name used by Dioscorides and Pliny the Elder for an orchid, Aceras anthropophorum, from the presumed aphrodisiacal properties possessed by the plant. The satyrs were closely associated with Dionysius. The allusion is to the two-spurred lip.
Schizoglossum aschersonianum
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From the English ‘achersonianum’ / ‘Acherson’ meaning ‘commemorating a person of this name’
Searsia rehmanniana
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Commemorating the German botanist and bryologist Anton(i) Rehman(n) (1840-1917). He visited SA twice, in 1875-1877 and 1879-1880. He made over 9000 collections probably representing over 3000 species.
Sebaea
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For Albertus Seba (1665–1736), Dutch pharmacist, zoologist and naturalist. In 1700, he opened an ‘apothecary shop’ in Amsterdam and collected exotic plants and animal products from sailors and ship surgeons from which he could make ‘medicines’. In 1716, he sold his first collection (as well as the Dutch botanist Frederik Ruysch’s collection) to the Russian Tsar, Peter the Great, on his visit to the Netherlands. Seba immediately set about building an even larger collection. In 1734, he published his magnificently illustrated four-volume Thesaurus (1734, 1735), with 446 plates (2 volumes published posthumously), which displays marine animals, insects and reptiles. Linnaeus must have seen this collection when he visited Seba twice in 1735. Seba became a Fellow of Royal Society in 1728.
Selago
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Celtic. sel = sight; jach = salutary, beneficial; referring to its supposed medicinal properties, especially for diseases of the eyes. Another source suggests the derivation is Greek, selagh = flashing. (Allusion unknown.)
Senecio
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La. senex = an old man. The white, hairy pappus of the seeds is reminiscent of an old man’s beard.
Senecio
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La. senex = an old man. The white, hairy pappus of the seeds is reminiscent of an old man’s beard.
Senecio erubescens
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From the Latin erubescens = 'redden' or 'blush'