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
Berzelia stokoei
Sonderothamnus petraeus
Capelio
Erica cristata
Erica gysbertii
Leucadendron
Freylinia longiflora
Erica viscaria
Osteospermum ciliatum
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Taxonomy term
Geissorhiza
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Gk. geisson = title; rhiza = root; alluding to the regular overlapping of the corm tunics in some species.
Gerbera
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For Traugott Gerber (1710–1743), German medical doctor, naturalist and explorer. He registered as a medical student at the University of Leipzig in 1730 and obtained a doctorate for his thesis, De Thoracibus, in 1735. Between 1739 and 1741 he led several expeditions on the Don and Volga rivers to search for medicinal plants and herbs and served as curator of the oldest (medical-pharmaceutical) botanical garden in Moscow from 1735–1742. He served in the Russian army in Finland in 1742. He was the author of Dissertationem Physicam de Plantarum Transpiratione and was a close friend of Swedish botanist Linnaeus, who published the genus Gerbera in 1758. Some sources also include his brother Fr. Gerber, who collected plants in the West Indies, in the commemoration.
Grubbia
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For Michael (Mikael) Grubb (af Grubbens) (1728–1808), Swedish botanist, mineralogist, merchant, botanical collector. He graduated with a PhD from Åbo Academy (later Helsinki University) (1748) and worked in Guangzhou, Canton (1749–1755), founding a branch there of the Swedish East India Company. He visited the Cape in 1764 and collected specimens, many bought from Johann Andreas Auge (q.v. Augea) and others, which he presented to Peter Jonas Bergius (1730–1790). This collection formed the basis of Bergius’s Descriptiones Plantarum ex Capita Bonae Spei Plantae Capenses (1767), a flora of the Cape Province. He became a director of the Swedish East India Company (1766–1769) and was elected a member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences in 1767 and knighted in 1768, when he took the name Af Grubbens.
Indigofera
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Indigo is derived from the La. indicus, Gk. indikos, referring to India; La. ferax = bearing. Indigo is blue dye (cf I. tinctoria).
Klattia
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For Friedrich Wilhelm Klatt (1825–1897), German botanist, a high school teacher in Hamburg, researcher and author. He obtained an honorary PhD from the University of Rostock for his revision of the Iridaceae family, contributed to many publications, including the multi-volume Conspectus Florae Africae, Flora Brasiliensis, Flora of Central Brazil and The Botany of German East Africa, and wrote extensively about the Compositae in Australia, Brazil, Columbia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, German East Africa and Madagascar. His name is on the Klatt Herbarium of Compositae at Harvard University.
Lachenalia
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For Werner de Lachenal (1736–1800), Swiss professor of botany and anatomy at the University of Basel from 1776, eminent for his knowledge of European plants. He obtained his PhD in 1763. He was a pupil of Haller, who was one of his main correspondents, providing him with details of flora and their location around Basel, the Jura mountains, Alsat and Bruntrutain. He was a friend of Linnaeus. He authored several monographs in Acta Helvetica. While at the university he substantially improved its botanical garden, the oldest in Switzerland, that had fallen into disrepair. He continually strived to obtain funds to reconstruct and develop the garden and to pay for its gardener. He opened the garden to the public to cover expenditures.
Lessertia
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For Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert (1773–1847), French banker, industrialist, philanthropist and amateur botanist. After serving with the Paris National Guard from 1790–1793, where he became an artillery officer, he joined his father’s bank. A gifted and energetic entrepreneur, he started many commercial enterprises – a cotton factory in 1801 and a beet-sugar factory in 1802. He became regent of the Bank of France (1802) and introduced the idea of a savings bank in France (with Jean-Conrad Hottingerces) in 1818. He was an ardent botanist and conchologist with a notable herbarium and a botanical library of 30 000 volumes. He wrote several books and financed several exquisitely illustrated shell books. He was made a baron by Napoleon.
Lessertia frutescens
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'shrub-like' from the Latin frutescens meaning ‘producing shoots’
Leucadendron
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Gk. leukos = white; dendron = tree; referring to commonly called ‘witteboom’ or ‘silver tree’.
Leucospermum bolusii
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Named after renowned botanist, businessman, artist and philanthropist, Harry Bolus (1834-1911) after whom the Bolus Herbarium of UCT is named. Five genera are named after him and over 100 species. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Bolus
Lobelia humifusa
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From the Latin humus = ‘ground’ and fusus = ‘poured over’; referring to a spreading habitat
Mairia robusta
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From the Latin robustus = 'robust' or 'strong', generally referring to the habit of the plant, but sometimes referring to the ability of the species to tolerate a variety of conditions.
Mastersiella
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For Maxwell Tylden Masters (1833–1907), British physician and taxonomist. He studied medicine at King’s College Hospital, London, became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons (1856), and obtained an MD from the University of St Andrews (1862). After a few years’ practice he was appointed a lecturer on botany at StGeorge’s Hospital. He was the editor of the Gardeners’ Chronicle from 1865 and a contributor to Martius’s massive Flora Brasiliensis (1840–1906) and Daniel Oliver’s Flora of Tropical Africa. His major work was Vegetable Teratology (1869), and he wrote many other books such as Botany for Beginners (1872), On the Conifers of Japan (1881), and Plant Life on the Farm (1885). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal and Linnaean societies.
Moraea
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Linnaeus married Sara Elisabeth Moraea; her father was Dr. Johan Moraeus, the town physician of Falun. The name "Morea" was originally given by Philip Miller after "Robert More of Shropshire", but was taken over by Linnaeus and changed to Moraea.