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.
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Elegia
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Bulbine
Oresbia heterocarpa
Edmondia pinifolia
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Restio
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Taxonomy term
Salvia
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La. salvia = the sage plant; a name used by Pliny the Elder, from La. salvere = to heal; referring to the medicinal properties claimed for some species.
Senecio
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La. senex = an old man. The white, hairy pappus of the seeds is reminiscent of an old man’s beard.
Serruria
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For Joseph (Josephus) Serrurier (1663–1742), Dutch physician, philosopher, mathematician, botanist and physicist. He studied at the University of Utrecht, obtaining an MA degree in 1690 and qualifying as a doctor of medicine on the same day. During his career at Utrecht, he became professor of philosophy and mathematics (1705), professor of botany and medicine (1716), and the university’s rector on three occasions. Among his works, he authored an extensive treatise on experimental physics, Physicae Experimentis Innixae Compendiosa Tractatio (1700), a commemorative volume on Adrianus Reland, orientalist, linguist and physicist; and created a new hortus botanicus, which he modelled on the University of Leiden’s widely acclaimed botanical garden designed by Herman Boerhaave.
Spatalla
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Gk. spatalos = wanton, riotous. A sexual allusion to the unusually large pollen presenters on so small a flower. Commonly known as ‘spoons’.
Stilbe
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Gk. stilbo = to shine; also a nymph in Greek mythology, daughter of the river god Peneus and the Naiad Creusa, but ‘the allusion is not clear’ (WPU Jackson). The inflorescence of S. vestita often shines like lighted candles at the top of a candelabra (Hugh Clarke).
Stylapterus
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Gk. stylos = pillar, column; -a- = without; pteron = wing, as opposed to the winged style of Penaea (Umberto Quattrocchi).
Syncarpha
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Gk. syn- = together; karphos = a dry stalk, scale; possibly referring to the dry bracts that are united into a cone-like structure.
Tetragonia
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Gk. tetra = four; gonia = an angle; referring to the angular shape of the fruit.
Ursinia
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Named in honour of Johann Ursinus of Regensburg, the author of Arboretum Biblicum. Sphenogyne R.Br. is not considered separable.
Watsonia
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For William Watson (1715–1787), English physician, apothecary, botanist and naturalist. He introduced the work of Linnaeus and his botanical classification system to Britain. He was the first scientist to observe the flash of light from the discharge of a Leyden jar and to show that electricity could pass through a vacuum and that it had a positive and negative charge; he coined the word ‘circuit’. His articles, entitled Experiments on the Nature of Electricity, appeared from 1745 onward in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, of which he became a member (1741) and vice president (1772). Both he and Benjamin Franklin discovered some of the same characteristics of electricity at the same time, but independently. The two men became friends.