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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Phylica
Oftia
Stachys flavescens
Vexatorella alpina
Aloe
Eriospermum multifidum
Othonna
Othonna protecta
Babiana planifolia
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Taxonomy term
Dianthus namaensis
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From the region of Namaqualand in the Northern Cape
Dischisma
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Gk. di- = two; schizein = to split; referring to the divided corolla tube.
Drimia
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Gk. drimys = acrid, pungent; referring to the sap which is considered irritating or even toxic in many species.
Empodium
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Gk. em- = within; pous, pod- = foot; alluding to the underground ovary.
Eriospermum
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Gk. erion = wool; sperma = seed. The seed is covered with white hairs.
Ferraria
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For Giovanni Batista Ferrari (1584–1655), Italian Jesuit, professor of Hebrew and rhetoric at the Jesuit College in Rome, horticultural advisor to the Pope, and author of many illustrated botanical books, including De Florum Cultura in four volumes (1633), a horticultural book emphasising the planning and planting of gardens, and Hesperides sive de Malorum Aureorum cultura (1646), a ‘citrus encyclopedia’. He also wrote a Latin-Syrian dictionary, a series of Orations – treatises on rhetoric, which emphasised good Latin usage, and a book on Sienese saints. He was the first scientist to provide a complete description of the limes, lemons and pomegranates, and their use in preventing scurvy.
Geissorhiza
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Gk. geisson = title; rhiza = root; alluding to the regular overlapping of the corm tunics in some species.
Gethyllis
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Possibly Gk. getheo = I rejoice; ullus = diminutive, but most sources say from gethyon = a bulb, onion or species of leek. The bulbs of this genus are somewhat similar to those of the leek.
Gladiolus
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La. gladiolus = a small sword; referring to the sword-like shape of the leaves.
Gloveria
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For Ruth Glover (later Ruth Wordsworth) (f 1908–1925), who worked on the staff of the Bolus Herbarium for Harry Bolus from 1908–1914 and did work for the South African museum, including joining the Percy Sladen memorial expedition of 1910–1911, which visited Khamiesberg, Giftberg and Oliphants River Mountains. She and Miss E Stephens worked in the valley of the Oliphants River in the vicinity of the Warm Baths springs, and the latter wrote up the species found in that area. She moved to Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) after her marriage and became Ruth Wordsworth.
Gnidia
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Derivation uncertain. Linnaeus only states ‘habitat in Aethiopa’, Africa, where it is widely distributed. Possibly Gnidia was named after a Greek city, Knidos, where a kind of laurel grew, or Cnidus in Caria (modern Turkey) (Hugh Glen). Another possibility is that it could be a Greek word for Daphne or laurel; in Greek mythology, Daphne was a pretty nymph who was turned into a laurel bush (WPU Jackson). It might also have been named after Knossos in Crete (spelled Knidiossos in one version), with the G being substituted for K.
Gomphocarpus cancellatus
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From the Latin ‘cancellatus’ / ‘cancellatus’ meaning ‘trellised’
Gymnodiscus
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Gk. gymnos = naked; diskos = disk. The receptacle of the flowerhead is flat, naked (nude); the disk florets functionally male.
Haemanthus amarylloides
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