Klein Karoo
The Little Karoo is separated from the Great Karoo by the Swartberg Mountain range. Geographically, it is a 290 km long valley, only 40–60 km wide, formed by two parallel Cape Fold Mountain ranges, the Swartberg to the north, and the continuous Langeberg-Outeniqua range to the south. The northern strip of the valley, within 10–20 km from the foot of the Swartberg mountains is most un-karoo-like, in that it is a well watered area both from the rain, and the many streams that cascade down the mountain, or through narrow defiles in the Swartberg from the Great Karoo.
Nodes
Enneapogon cenchroides
Ischyrolepis gaudichaudiana
Elegia vaginulata
Willdenowia incurvata
Eragrostis curvula
Tetraria triangularis
Pentaschistis airoides
Staberoha cernua
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Taxonomy term
Aster
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Name from the Greek aster, a star.
Asteraceae
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Named after the genus Aster. The name Aster comes from the Ancient Greek word ἀστήρ (astḗr), meaning "star", referring to the shape of the flower head.
Athanasia
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Name from the Greek a, negative, and thanatos, death, in allusion to the persistent dry involucral bracts.
Athanasia pachycephala
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Atriplex vestita
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From the Latin vestitus = ‘clad’ or 'clothed'. This typically refers to having meany leaves down the length of the branches or to the leaves themselves being clothed in hair
Avonia papyracea
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From the Latin papyraceus = ‘papyrus-like’
Babiana sambucina
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Bartholina
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Commemorates Thomas Bartholin, a Danish botanist, 1616-1680.
Bartholina burmaniana
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Berkheya cruciata
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From the Latin ‘cruciata’ / ‘cruciatus’ meaning ‘cross-shaped’
Berkheya onobromoides
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From the Greek ‘brom’ / ‘bromos’ meaning ‘food’; and the Greek ‘oides’ / ‘oides’ meaning ‘in the form of’.
Bobartia
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For Jacob Bobart (1599–1680), German botanist and the first horti praefectus (superintendent, head gardener) of the Oxford Physic Garden; which cultivated medical herbs; the first garden of its kind in England. He was the author of Catalogus Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis, sci Latino-Anglicus et Anglico-Latinus (1648); a catalogue of 1600 plants that were in the garden. His son, Jacob Bobart the Younger (1641–1719), succeeded his father as horti praefectus and became acting professor of botany at Oxford.
Bobartia macrospatha
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Bobartia orientalis
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From the Latin orientalis = ‘eastern’