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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Oxalis ambigua
Othonna macrophylla
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Cullumia rigida
Lotononis
Cheiridopsis
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Taxonomy term
Phylica
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Gk. phyllikos = leafy; referring to the plentiful foliage.
Phyllobolus
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Gk. phyllon = leaf; bolos = throwing; referring to the deciduous shedding of leaves by some species.
Polyxena ensifolia
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Latin meaning sword-shaped leaves
Romulea
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For the legendary Romulus, founder and first king of Rome.
Ruschia
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For Ernst Julius Rusch (1867–1957), Namibian farmer, businessman and plant collector. He came to South-West Africa (Namibia) in 1890, where he grew succulent plants and later established a nursery at Lichtenstein, near Windhoek, Namibia. He and his son Ernst Franz Rusch Jnr (1897–1964) made many collecting trips together. He was one of the founders of Windhoek, and was given freedom of the city on his 60th birthday.
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.
Tribolium
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Gk. tribolo = three-pronged; tribulus = three-pointed; possibly referring to the three florets encased in the very bristly glumes (Hubbard, 2001).
Tripteris
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Gk. tri- = three; pteron = wing; referring to the fruits that are three-winged, so are easily dispersed by wind.
Watsonia meriana
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From the Dutch ‘meriana’ / ‘Merian’ meaning ‘commemorating a Dutch floral artist’