Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve and adjacent lowlands and farmland
This area has the highest plant diversity in both the Cape Floristic Region and the of any mediterranean flora in the world. The boundaries are here considered as the Cape Flats and False Bay to the west, the Atlantic Ocean to the south, to the Bot River to the east, and the N2 road to the north.
Nodes
Rutaceae
Lessertia frutescens

Untitled

Untitled

Untitled

Untitled

Untitled

Untitled

Untitled
Pages
Taxonomy term
Aloe
{"type":"FeatureCollection","features":[]}
Gk. aloē (from earlier Semitic word alloeh) = bitter. The liquid or dried juice found in the leaves is bitter.
Anaxeton asperum
{"type":"FeatureCollection","features":[]}
From the Latin asper = 'rough'
Anthospermum
{"type":"FeatureCollection","features":[]}
Gk. anthos = flower; spermum = seed. Although the flowers are usually dioecious – unisexual, male and female – ‘male’ flowers sometimes have ovaries capable of ripening seed.
Apodytes
{"type":"FeatureCollection","features":[]}
Gk. apoduein = to strip off; referring to the tiny sepals which cover nothing leaving the corolla uncovered.
Arctotis
{"type":"FeatureCollection","features":[]}
Gk. arkto- = brown bear; -otis = an ear. The bear-like ears have been linked, variously, to the earlike pappus scales, outer involucral bracts or the shaggy fruit.
Athanasia
{"type":"FeatureCollection","features":[]}
Name from the Greek a, negative, and thanatos, death, in allusion to the persistent dry involucral bracts.
Aulax
{"type":"FeatureCollection","features":[]}
From the Greek aulax, a furrow, for doubtful reasons. The leaves of A. cancellata are inconspicuously channelled, while some of the floral parts are microscopically grooved.
Berzelia stokoei
{"type":"FeatureCollection","features":[]}
Named in honour of T. P. Stokoe (1868-1959), one of the most famous Mountain Club of South Africa members. A comprehensive eponymous biography is written by Peter Slingsby.
Bobartia gladiata
{"type":"FeatureCollection","features":[]}
From the Latin ‘gladiata’ / ‘gladiatus’ meaning ‘sword-like’
Brunia
{"type":"FeatureCollection","features":[]}
For Alexander Brown (f 1692–1698), a naval surgeon and plant collector who worked for the East India Company around 1690 and collected in India, the Cape, Spain and Arabia, etc. sending specimens to Plukenet (1641–1706), an English botanist, royal professor of botany and gardener to Queen Mary; James Petiver (c 1665–1718) a London apothecary; Jacob Bobart (c 1665–1718) in Oxford and to Charles du Bois (1656–1740), an English merchant and botanist, treasurer of the East India Company. He amassed a vast herbarium of East Indian plants. No further details are known.
Brunia microphylla
{"type":"FeatureCollection","features":[]}
From the Greek mikros = ‘small’ and phyllon = ‘leaf’.
Bulbine
{"type":"FeatureCollection","features":[]}
La. bulbus = an onion or bulb. A misnomer in that the plants do not have a bulbous base.
Capelio
{"type":"FeatureCollection","features":[]}
Capelio = an anagram for Alciope.
Cliffortia
{"type":"FeatureCollection","features":[]}
For George Clifford (1685–1760), Dutch merchant and banker, amateur botanist and zoologist. He was a director of the Dutch East India Company and owned a magnificent garden at Hartecamp, Netherlands, as well as a private zoo in Amsterdam. George Clifford is best known as a patron of the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus, whom he employed as ‘hortulanus’ and who catalogued the family’s unique collection of plants, herbarium and library. The result was Linnaeus’s 530-page book Hortus Cliffortianus (1738), his first important work, in which he described many species from Clifford’s garden. The publication was paid for by George Clifford as a private edition.
Pages
