Namaqualand
Arid Region of the Northern Cape characterised predominantly by granite hills.
Nodes
Pelargonium
Drimia oliverorum
Ledebouria
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Ihlenfeldtia excavata
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Antimima
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Lapeirousia
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Taxonomy term
Dipcadi
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A Turkish name originally for the grape hyacinth, Muscari.
Dorotheanthus
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For Dorothea Schwantes (1849–?) (née Meyer), wife of farmer Jürgen Meyer and mother of German professor and botanist Gustav Martin Heinrich Gustav Schwantes, who published the genus in her honour in 1927.
Dorotheanthus bellidiformis
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From the Latin ‘bellidi’ / ‘bellis’ meaning ‘a daisy genus’; and the Latin ‘formis’ / ‘formis’ meaning ‘in the form of’.
Drimia
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Gk. drimys = acrid, pungent; referring to the sap which is considered irritating or even toxic in many species.
Empodium
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Gk. em- = within; pous, pod- = foot; alluding to the underground ovary.
Eriocephalus
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Gk. erion = wool; kephale = head. The fruiting capitula (fruiting heads) are woolly.
Eriospermum
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Gk. erion = wool; sperma = seed. The seed is covered with white hairs.
Euphorbia
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Gk. eu- = well; phorbe = pasture or fodder; probably after Euphorbus, Greek physician to Juba II, King of Mauretania. Juba was educated in Rome and married the daughter of Antony and Cleopatra. He was apparently interested in botany and had written about an African cactus-like plant from the slopes of Mount Atlas, which he had found or knew about, which was used as a powerful laxative. That plant may have been Euphorbia resinifera, and like all Euphorbias had a latexy exudate (milky emulsion from certain plants). Euphorbus had a brother named Antonius Musa who was the physician to Augustus Caesar in Rome. When Juba heard that Caesar had honoured his physician with a statue, he decided to honour his own physician by naming the plant he had written about after him.
Euphorbia mauritanica
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From the Latin Mauritanica / Mauritania the country in northwest Africa which is now Algeria and Morocco, and from where the 'moors' came from
Euryops
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Gk. eurys = large or broad; ops = eye or face; referring to the large showy capitula or flower head.
Euryops subcarnosus
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from the Latin sub- = 'under', 'somewhat', and carnosus = 'fleshy'
FABACEAE
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Faba, Latin, a bean.
FABACEAE
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Faba, Latin, a bean.
FABACEAE
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Faba, Latin, a bean.