Langeberg Mountains
Long chain of mainly east-west lying mountains mostly separating the Agulhas plains and Southern Cape in the south, from the Klein Karoo to the north. There are a number of endemic species of which the endemic family Peneaceae is particularly well represented.
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Helichrysum
Crassula rubricaulis
Phylica
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Grubbia
Indigofera
Cliffortia
Helipterum
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Taxonomy term
Nivenia
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For James Niven (1776–1827), Scottish gardener at the Royal Botanical Garden of Edinburgh and at Syon House, Middlesex. He collected plants in South Africa from 1798–1803 for his patron, George Hibbert, in Clapham, London. Three months after his return to England he went back to the Cape as botanical collector for Empress Josephine of France and James Lee and John Kennedy of the Vineyard Nursery, Hammersmith, near London. He spent a further nine years at the Cape collecting herbarium specimens, seeds and bulbs but also visiting areas such as Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape to Clanwilliam northwest of Cape Town, returning to England in 1812 and setting up his own business, unrelated to botany.
Paranomus
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From the Greek para, beyond, contrary to; nomos, custom, law; referring to the leaves which carry dichotomously branched veins, are not dorsiventral and in many species are of two entirely different shapes in the adult bush.
Paranomus
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From the Greek para, beyond, contrary to; nomos, custom, law; referring to the leaves which carry dichotomously branched veins, are not dorsiventral and in many species are of two entirely different shapes in the adult bush.
Phylica
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Gk. phyllikos = leafy; referring to the plentiful foliage.
Polygala
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Gk. poly = much; gala = milk; so-called from the belief that cattle grazing in fields with this plant produced more milk. (San Marcos growers in the United States claim that Polygala virgata ‘Portola’ has this property but the authors could find no scientific evidence).
SCROPHULARIACEAE
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Scrophularia was derived from scrophula (scrofula) and was used in its treatment, because of the similarity between the roots of some species and tuberculous swellings.
SCROPHULARIACEAE
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Scrophularia was derived from scrophula (scrofula) and was used in its treatment, because of the similarity between the roots of some species and tuberculous swellings.
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.
Zygophyllum
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Gk. zygon = a yoke; phyllum = leaf. The leaves are usually bifoliolate – the two leaflets are as if ‘yoked together’.
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