Khamieskroon area and Khamiesberg
A quiet town in Namaqualand that is overlooked by the highest mountain in the Namaqualand region, the Khamiesberg. This mountain has a number of endemic species and receives considerable moisture. As a result many species that do not occur except further south than the Gifberg and Niewoudtville area, reoccur here on this renosterveld and fynbos island.
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Pelargonium
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Moraea kamiesmontana
Oedera conferta
Othonna retrofracta
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Conophytum hyracis
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Taxonomy term
Acanthopsis
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Gk. -opsis = resembling. Acanthosicyos (Cucurbitaceae) Welw. Ex Hook.f. Gk. akanthos = thorn; sikyos or sykios = wild cucumber; referring to the thorny cucumber or gourd such as the !Nara and the Gemsbok cucumber.
Adromischus filicaulis
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From the Latin fili = 'thread-like' and caulis = 'stem'; referring to a thin stem
Aloe
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Gk. aloē (from earlier Semitic word alloeh) = bitter. The liquid or dried juice found in the leaves is bitter.
Antimima
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Gk. antimimos = imitating. The first species looked like Argyroderma.
Antithrixia
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La. anti- = resembling; the genus Athrixia (q.v.); particularly the pappus, as commented by William Henry Harvey.
APIACEAE
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Named after the genus Apium including Apium graveolens - celery.
Arctotis
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Gk. arkto- = brown bear; -otis = an ear. The bear-like ears have been linked, variously, to the earlike pappus scales, outer involucral bracts or the shaggy fruit.
Arctotis canescens
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From the Latin canescens = ‘becoming white’
Aspalathus
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From aspalathos, a scented bush that grew in Greece, now in the related genus Astragalus.
Asparagus capensis
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From the Cape Province of South Africa, previously known as the Cape Colony. -ensis is a Latin adjectival suffix meaning “pertaining to or “originating in,” Thus these organisms were first discovered in the Cape. In the early days of exploration this epithet was frequently applied to anywhere in South Africa or even Southern Africa
Babiana
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Unusual among South African plants in the name being derived from the vernacular Dutch, "baviaantjie", Afrikaans "bobbejaantjie" or its Cape corruption "babiaantjie". The baboon, bobbejaan, is partial to the corms.
Berkheya spinosissima
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From the Latin spinosus = ‘thorny’ and issima = 'an intensifier', 'very'; i.e. very thorny
Bolandia glabrifolia
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From the Latin glaber = 'hairless', 'smooth' or 'bald' and folius = 'leaf'
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