Namaqualand
Arid Region of the Northern Cape characterised predominantly by granite hills.
Nodes
Crassula tomentosa
Othonna macrophylla
Wiborgia
Strumaria
Cleretum patersonjonesii
Ferraria ornata
Pterygodium crispum
Psilocaulon dinteri
Arctotis
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Taxonomy term
Cineraria
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La. cinereus = ash-coloured. Most species of this genus have leaves with an ashen-grey haircovering on at least the lower surface.
Cleretum
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Gk. kleros = fate, chance, lot (as in ‘drawing lots’); -etum = the place dominated by a given plant. In early Sparta public land was apportioned to citizens by drawing lots, with the best land given to those who, by chance, drew a winning lot.
Cleretum patersonjonesii
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Named after photographer extraordinaire, Colin Paterson-Jones. He photographed particularly plants including all the Proteaceae for the Sasol Protea Field Guide, photographed tens of thousands of other species. Husband of Dee Snijman.
Codon
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Gk. kodon = a bell; referring to the shape of the corolla – especially the flowers of C. royenii which are deeply cup-shaped, even if they do not hang down (Plantza.com).
Colchicum
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Gk. From Colchis, an ancient region of Georgia, near the north-eastern Black Sea, in the Caucasus.
Colchicum albomarginatum
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Colchicum dregei
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Commemorates the brothers Carl Friedrich Drege (1791-1867) and Johann Franz Drege (1794-1881) of Huguenot ancestry. Prodigious botanists and plant collectors in the Cape.’
Coleonema
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Gk. koleos = a sheath; nema = a thread; alluding to the filaments of the sterile stamens (staminoides) enfolded in the channel of petals.
Coleonema
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Gk. koleos = a sheath; nema = a thread; alluding to the filaments of the sterile stamens (staminoides) enfolded in the channel of petals.
Coleonema
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Gk. koleos = a sheath; nema = a thread; alluding to the filaments of the sterile stamens (staminoides) enfolded in the channel of petals.
Coleonema
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Gk. koleos = a sheath; nema = a thread; alluding to the filaments of the sterile stamens (staminoides) enfolded in the channel of petals.
Conophytum
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Gk. konos = cone; phytum = plant; alluding to the inverted cone shape of the plant.
Conophytum minusculum subsp. minusculum
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