Wimmerella
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
20/07/2018 - 6:55pm
Collection:
Mountain Mist Private Nature Reserve - Aurora
Perched at the top of the Kapteinskop mountain, the Mountain Mist Guest Nature Reserve has beautiful high altitude restioid fynbos with a diversity of Proteaceae and other plants. Home to the the rodent pollinated Erica pudens and the Vulnerable Piketberg endemic, Leucadendron discolor. There are several caves with unusual rock paintings, a bush pool to swim in, spectacular views and accomodation for up to 18 people in four separate units. www.mountainmist.co.zaThe field guide is available at http://bit.ly/2uEoDZj
Is private:
Public
Nodes
Heliophila
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
20/07/2018 - 6:48pm
Collection:
Cliffortia
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
20/07/2018 - 6:45pm
Collection:
Hymenolepis
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
20/07/2018 - 6:47pm
Collection:
Bulbine cepacea
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
20/07/2018 - 6:23pm
Collection:
Diospyros glabra
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
20/07/2018 - 6:20pm
Collection:
Oxalis
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
20/07/2018 - 6:16pm
Collection:
Satyrium erectum
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
20/07/2018 - 6:13pm
Collection:
Untitled
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
20/07/2018 - 6:02pm
Collection:
Crassula umbella
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
20/07/2018 - 5:59pm
Collection:
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Taxonomy term
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Chrysanthemoides monilifera
(Bietou)
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Short etymology:
From the Greek ‘anthe’ / ‘anthos’ meaning ‘flower ’; and the Greek ‘oides’ / ‘oides’ meaning ‘in the form of’.
Description:
Rounded shrub to over 1.5 m, thinly woolly on young parts. Leaves obovate to elliptic, toothed, dark green, leathery. Flower heads radiate, few in terminal corymbs on short peduncles, yellow. Mainly Mar.--July. Sandstone and limestone slopes and flats, NW, SW, AP, KM, LB, SE (Namaqualand to tropical Africa).G
Cliffortia
NE
20
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Short etymology:
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.
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Clutia
NE
20
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Short etymology:
For Theodorus Augerius Clutius (Outgers Cluyt) (1577–1636), Dutch botanist, horticulturalist, beekeeper and pharmacist, eldest son of Dirck Outgaertszoon Cluyt (Clutius) (1550–1598) from Delft, an apothecary, curator of the Leiden botanical garden, and an authority on medicinal herbs. Outgers studied and worked with his father in the garden. After his father died he hoped to become his successor, but failed in the attempt. Thereafter, he studied at the University of Montpellier for several years. Between 1602–1608 he travelled to France, Germany and Spain, and also, later, on three occasions to the desert of Barbary in North Africa to increase his knowledge and collect plants for the Leiden botanical garden. Leiden University rewarded him handsomely for his efforts. On his return to the Netherlands (1618), he worked as a physician and during that time worked hard to promote the Amsterdam Hortus Botanicus where he obtained a job against strong opposition. Herman Boerhaave honoured Outgers (and his father) by naming Clutia pulchella after them.
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Crassula
NE
1
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Short etymology:
La. crassus = thick; -ula = diminutive; referring to the fleshy succulent leaves.
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Dodonaea
NE
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Short etymology:
For Rembert Dodoens (or Rembertus Dodonaeus) (1517–1585), Flemish physician and herbalist. He studied medicine, cosmography and geography at the University of Leuven, worked mainly as a physician, but was court physician to the Austrian emperor Rudolph II in Vienna from 1575–1578 and professor of medicine at Leiden University in 1582. He was a prolific writer and one of the foremost botanists of his day, with 12 major publications to his name. Dodoens’s Cruydeboeck, a reference book about herbs with 715 images (1554), was the most translated book of that time after the Bible. It was translated into French, English and Latin, and became a work of worldwide renown used as a reference book for two centuries.
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Erica
NE
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Short etymology:
Gk. ereike = to break. The name used for a heath by Theophrastus (372–287 BCE) and Pliny the Elder. The stems are brittle and break easily (Lindsay); or possibly but less likely because of the ability of the plant to break up bladder stones (Paxton’s Botanical Dictionary).
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Eriospermum
NE
20
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Short etymology:
Gk. erion = wool; sperma = seed. The seed is covered with white hairs.
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Euryops
NE
20
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Short etymology:
Gk. eurys = large or broad; ops = eye or face; referring to the large showy capitula or flower head.
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Haemanthus
NE
20
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Short etymology:
Gk. haima = blood; anthos = flower. The colour of the (flower) perianth is red in many species.
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Heliophila
NE
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Short etymology:
Gk. (h)elios = sun; philein = to love. The plant likes a sunny position.
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Hesperantha
NE
20
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Short etymology:
Gk. hesperos = evening; anthos = flower. Many flowers open late in the day, toward evening, Afrikaans aandblom = evening bloom/flower.
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Holothrix
NE
20
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Short etymology:
Gk. holos = entire, whole; thrix (thricos) = hair; the plant is hairy all over.
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Hymenolepis
NE
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Short etymology:
Gk. hymen = membrane; lepis = scale; referring to the membranous scales that cover the fruitification.
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Knowltonia vesicatoria
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Short etymology:
From the Latin ‘vesicatoria’ / ‘vesicatorius’ meaning ‘relating to the bladder’
Description:
Tufted perennial to 1.2 m, rhizome horizontal. Leaves leathery, ternate or triternate, segments ovate, toothed. Flowers in scapose umbels not much longer than the leaves, white to yellowish-green. Fruits glabrous. Aug.--Oct. Scrub or woody ravines, NW, SW, AP, LB, SE (Bokkeveld Mts to Cape Peninsula to E Cape).S
Leucadendron spissifolium
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Short etymology:
From the Latin ‘spissi’ / ‘spissus’ meaning ‘thick or dense’; and the Latin ‘folium’ / ‘folium’ meaning ‘leaf’.
Description:
Resprouting dioecious shrub to 1.3 m. Leaves linear-oblanceolate, 25--63 mm long (male), 27--80 mm long (female), involucral leaves larger, ivory or pale green. Male flower heads c. 18 mm diam., female 13--15 mm diam., lemon-scented. Aug.--Oct. Sandstone slopes, NW, SW, LB, SE (Gifberg to KwaZulu-Natal).Pages
