Hantams Plateau
The escarpment area comprising the Bokkeveld series geological formations that have led to nutrient rich dolorites that characterise the region. It is renowned for its geophytic (bulb) diversity of which the Niewoudtville area is the best known and home to one of SANBI's nature reserves. It includes Calvinia and the surrounds and the Hantamsberg above Calvinia.
Nodes
Manulea fragrans
Aptosimum procumbens
Zaluzianskya
Haemanthus coccineus
Hemimeris centrodes
Crassula corallina
Romulea komsbergensis
Romulea
Agathosma capensis
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Taxonomy term
Gazania krebsiana
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From the German ‘krebsiana’ / ‘Krebs’ meaning ‘commemorating a botanist of this name’
Hemimeris
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Gk. hemi- = half; meros = a part or fragment; referring to the flower that is cut away on one side, that is, lacking a spur.
Lapeirousia plicata
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From the Latin plicatus = 'folded'
Lessertia
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For Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert (1773–1847), French banker, industrialist, philanthropist and amateur botanist. After serving with the Paris National Guard from 1790–1793, where he became an artillery officer, he joined his father’s bank. A gifted and energetic entrepreneur, he started many commercial enterprises – a cotton factory in 1801 and a beet-sugar factory in 1802. He became regent of the Bank of France (1802) and introduced the idea of a savings bank in France (with Jean-Conrad Hottingerces) in 1818. He was an ardent botanist and conchologist with a notable herbarium and a botanical library of 30 000 volumes. He wrote several books and financed several exquisitely illustrated shell books. He was made a baron by Napoleon.
Lessertia frutescens
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'shrub-like' from the Latin frutescens meaning ‘producing shoots’
Lotononis
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Combination of the two generic names Lotus and Ononis, both of which are legumes.
Monsonia
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For Lady Ann Monson (née Vane) (1714–1776), English naturalist and great-granddaughter of Charles II. In 1774, aged 60, she came to the Cape on her way to India. Carl Peter Thunberg (1743–1728), who had arrived two years earlier to collect plant specimens and learn Dutch, took Lady Ann to a number of farms adjacent to Cape Town. She seemingly had more interest in the animal kingdom than the floral one. Lady Ann corresponded with Linnaeus, who seemed besotted with her, and he named the genus in her honour, writing: ‘Nature has never produced a woman who is your equal – you are a phoenix among women.’
Monsonia crassicaule
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From the Latin crassus = "thick" and caule = "stem"
Muraltia spinosa
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From the Latin spinosus = ‘thorny’
Osteospermum
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Gk. osteon = bone; sperma = seed. The achenes are bone-hard.
Osteospermum incanum
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From the Latin incanus = 'grey'
Romulea
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For the legendary Romulus, founder and first king of Rome.
Romulea atrandra
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Romulea luteoflora
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From the Latin luteus = 'yellow' and flora = 'flower'
Romulea tortuosa
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From the Latin meaning 'twisted'