Brunsvigia josephinae
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
28/08/2012 - 4:58pm
Collection:
Monument, Matjiesfontein
A small fragment of land near Matjiesfontein with some interesting plant species.
Is private:
Public
Nodes
Cotyledon orbiculata
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
28/08/2012 - 4:37pm
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Zygophyllum pygmaeum
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
28/08/2012 - 4:22pm
Collection:
Tylecodon wallichii
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
28/08/2012 - 4:21pm
Collection:
Crassula umbella
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
28/08/2012 - 5:34pm
Collection:
Kniphofia sarmentosa
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
28/08/2012 - 5:33pm
Collection:
Androcymbium
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
28/08/2012 - 5:32pm
Collection:
Crassula
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
28/08/2012 - 5:31pm
Collection:
Ixia latifolia
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
28/08/2012 - 5:29pm
Collection:
Trachyandra revoluta
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
28/08/2012 - 5:27pm
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Taxonomy term
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Androcymbium
NE
20
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Short etymology:
Gk. andro- = male (in botanical language, stamen); kymbium = cup or saucer (La. cymba). The petal limbs enfold the stamens. Common names ‘men-in-a-boat’, ‘cup-and-saucer’.
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Brunsvigia
NE
19
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Short etymology:
For Karl (Carl) Wilhelm Ferdinand (1713–1780), also known as Charles I or Karl I, duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, able military commander, ruler of Brunswick-Lüneburg from 1773, patron of the arts and sciences who promoted the study of plants, including the beautiful Cape species B. orientalis. He also founded the Collegium Carolinum, an institute of higher education, which is today known as the Technical University of Brunswick. The name Brunswick is the Latin translation of Braunschweig, a town in Germany that was a sovereign duchy of northern Germany between the 1st and 19th centuries.
S
Cheiridopsis cigarettifera
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Short etymology:
Description:
Like C. rostrata but leaves with serrated keels and fruits more than 10-locular, with narrow flag-shaped valve wings. July--Sept. Shale slopes and flats, 300-900 m, NW, SW, KM, LB (Namaqualand and W Karoo to Little Karoo).S
Cleretum papulosum
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Short etymology:
From the Latin ‘papulosum’ / ‘pappulosus’ meaning ‘invested with hairy seeds’
Description:
Trailing papillose succulent. Leaves ligulate to spathulate. Flowers large (to 40 mm diam) on a long pedicel or small on a short pedicel, yellow. Fruits with high rims. Sept.--Oct. ?, NW, SW, KM, LB (Namaqualand to Mossel Bay).S
Cotyledon orbiculata
(Kouterie)5
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Short etymology:
From the Latin ‘orbiculata’ / ‘orbiculata’ meaning ‘made into an orb’
Description:
Succulent shrublet to 1 m. Leaves obovate to narrowly ovoid, sometimes velvety, with a grey bloom. Flowers several in a stout, pedunculate cyme, nodding, reddish, filaments hairy below. Sept.--Dec. Sandy or stony soils in scrub, NW, SW, AP, KM, LB, SE (Namibia and western South Africa).G
Crassula
NE
1
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Short etymology:
La. crassus = thick; -ula = diminutive; referring to the fleshy succulent leaves.
S
Heliophila pusilla
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Short etymology:
From the Latin pusillus = 'very small' or 'tiny'
Description:
Slender annual to 30 cm. Leaves exstipulate, filiform to oblanceolate. Flowers white to mauve, petals sometimes with basal appendages, ovules 3--12. Fruits submoniliform, 5--18 mm long. Aug.--Oct. Clay soils, NW, SW, AP, LB (Cold Bokkeveld to De Hoop).G
Ixia
NE
1
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Short etymology:
Ancient Gk. Ixia = a Linnaeus-derived name for a plant noted for the variability of its flower colour or Gk. ixos = mistletoe (viscum), birdlime; referring to the viscous sap (WPU Jackson).
S
Ixia latifolia
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Short etymology:
From the Latin lati / latus meaning ‘wide’; and folius meaning ‘leaf’; i.e. the plant is broad-leafed
Description:
Cormous geophyte, 20--50 cm. Leaves broad, often falcate. Flowers pink to purple, tube narrowly funnel-shaped. Sept.--Nov. Mostly clay soils in renosterveld, NW, SW, KM (Namaqualand to Paarl, Montagu and W Karoo).G
Phyllobolus
NE
20
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Short etymology:
Gk. phyllon = leaf; bolos = throwing; referring to the deciduous shedding of leaves by some species.
G
Ruschia
NE
2
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Short etymology:
For Ernst Julius Rusch (1867–1957), Namibian farmer, businessman and plant collector. He came to South-West Africa (Namibia) in 1890, where he grew succulent plants and later established a nursery at Lichtenstein, near Windhoek, Namibia. He and his son Ernst Franz Rusch Jnr (1897–1964) made many collecting trips together. He was one of the founders of Windhoek, and was given freedom of the city on his 60th birthday.
S
Spiloxene serrata
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Short etymology:
From the Latin serratus = ‘serrated’ or 'saw-toothed'. Each tooth is angled more on one side than the other (forward pointing) as compared with dentate which is equally angled on both sides forming triangular teeth.
Description:
Cormous geophyte, 6--20 cm. Leaves several, suberect, channelled, margin minutely toothed. Flower 1 per scape, yellow, orange or white with green reverse; bracts 2, linear. May--Oct. Flats and lower slopes, NW, SW (Namaqualand to Cape Peninsula and Worcester).S
Tylecodon wallichii
(Kokerbos)
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Short etymology:
Named after Nathaniel Wallich (1786-1854), a Danish botanist and physician who extensively worked in India and made significant contributions to the study of Indian plants.
Description:
Succulent shrublet with warty stems to 1 m. Leaves dry at flowering, abscising, oblanceolate. Flowers in a spreading cyme, urn-shaped, nodding, greenish-yellow, tube 7--12 mm. Dec.--Feb. Stony flats and slopes, NW, SW, KM (Namaqualand to Saldanha through Little Karoo to Ladismith).