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
Syringodea longituba
Othonna
Pelargonium
Carpobrotus
Oxalis
Stachys aethiopica
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Tylecodon
Pelargonium
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Taxonomy term
Diascia
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Gk. di- = two; askion = wineskin, bladder, belly; referring to the two lateral corolla pouches.
Dicoma anomala
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From the Latin anomalus = ‘abnormal’
Diospyros
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Gk. dios = divine; pyros = literally, a ‘grain of wheat’ but in this instance fruit. The fruits are ‘divine’ – edible and very tasty. This name was originally applied to the Caucasion persimmon, Diospyros lotus.
Disperis
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Gk. dis = twice; pera = a pouch, sac; alluding to the pouches formed by the lateral sepals.
Erica monsoniana
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Named in honour of Lady Ann Monson
Euphorbia
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Gk. eu- = well; phorbe = pasture or fodder; probably after Euphorbus, Greek physician to Juba II, King of Mauretania. Juba was educated in Rome and married the daughter of Antony and Cleopatra. He was apparently interested in botany and had written about an African cactus-like plant from the slopes of Mount Atlas, which he had found or knew about, which was used as a powerful laxative. That plant may have been Euphorbia resinifera, and like all Euphorbias had a latexy exudate (milky emulsion from certain plants). Euphorbus had a brother named Antonius Musa who was the physician to Augustus Caesar in Rome. When Juba heard that Caesar had honoured his physician with a statue, he decided to honour his own physician by naming the plant he had written about after him.
Euphorbia coerulescens
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From the New Latin coerulescens = 'becoming blue' or 'slightly blue'
Euphorbia horrida
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From the Latin horrid' meaning bristling or stout-spined.
Euphorbia mauritanica
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From the Latin Mauritanica / Mauritania the country in northwest Africa which is now Algeria and Morocco, and from where the 'moors' came from
Euryops
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Gk. eurys = large or broad; ops = eye or face; referring to the large showy capitula or flower head.
Felicia muricata
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From the Latin muricata = 'spiny' (like the purple fish, a murex), in reference to its elongate dorsal and pectoral-fin spines
Ficinia
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For Heinrich David August Ficinus (1782–1857), German physician, naturalist, botanist, professor of physics and chemistry at the medical-surgical academy in Dresden (1814), then was professor of natural history (1817). From 1822 onwards he worked in his father’s pharmacy but also taught chemistry, technology and physics at the Technical Training Institute in Dresden (1828–1833). He wrote several literary works, textbooks and papers in the fields of botany, optics and mineral chemistry. They include Flora of the Area around Dresden (1807), Optics or Attempts to Follow the Right Outline of the Whole Theory of Light (1828), Foundations of Medical Physics, Foundations of Medicinal Chemistry (1815), and General Natural History (1839) (titles translated from German).
Freesia
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For Friedrich Heinrich Theodor Freese (Vries) (1795–1876), a German physician and botanist from Kiel who learned much about South African plants from his contemporary Christian Friedrich Ecklon (1795–1868), and who, like his teacher, studied South African plants. This beautiful plant Freese discovered was named after him by the German botanist Klatt in 1866.
Gasteria bicolor
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From the Latin bi meaning ‘two’; and the Latin color meaning ‘colour’. This typically refers to the flower having two colours