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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Aspalathus
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Trachyandra falcata
Phyllobolus
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Cheiridopsis
Polygala ephedroides
Insecta
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Taxonomy term
Bulbinella latifolia
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From the Latin lati / latus meaning ‘wide’; and folius meaning ‘leaf’; i.e. the plant is broad-leafed
Cheiridopsis
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Gk. kheiris = a sleeve, -opsis = resembling; referring to the old, dry leaves which form a protective sheath around new emerging green leaves.
Cleretum
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Gk. kleros = fate, chance, lot (as in ‘drawing lots’); -etum = the place dominated by a given plant. In early Sparta public land was apportioned to citizens by drawing lots, with the best land given to those who, by chance, drew a winning lot.
Cleretum schlechteri
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Named in honour of the German Rudolf Schlecter (1872-1925) and his brother Max (1874-1960), renowned plant collectors from South Africa.
Colchicum
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Gk. From Colchis, an ancient region of Georgia, near the north-eastern Black Sea, in the Caucasus.
Colpias
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Gk. kolpos = breast or womb; probably referring to the two pouches in the corolla tube which resemble breasts.
Cotyledon
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Gk. kotyledon = seed leaf, from kotyle = cup, bowl; referring to the bowl- or spoon-shape of the broad seed leaves.
Crassula
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La. crassus = thick; -ula = diminutive; referring to the fleshy succulent leaves.
Crassula sericea
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From the Latin sericea meaning ‘silky’
Crassula tomentosa
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From the Latin tomentosus = 'densely woolly'
Crocosmia
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Gk. krokos = saffron; osme = smell; referring to the scent of the dried flowers when immersed in water. Krokos probably of Semitic origin (e.g. Arabic kurkum).
Cyphia
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Gk. kyphos = bent; referring to the shape of the style and stigma.
Cyphia crenata
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From the Latin crenatus = ‘notched' or 'battlemented', like the wall of a castle