Namaqualand
Arid Region of the Northern Cape characterised predominantly by granite hills.
Nodes
Fockea
Hermannia
Colchicum albomarginatum
Sarcocaulon
Pteronia
Euphorbia
Pelargonium
Hermannia
Heliophila
Pages
Taxonomy term
Ledebouria
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After Carl Friedrich van Ledebour (1785-1851), German professor of botany at Dorpat, worked in several European countries, wrote Flora Rossica.
Lessertia
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For Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert (1773–1847), French banker, industrialist, philanthropist and amateur botanist. After serving with the Paris National Guard from 1790–1793, where he became an artillery officer, he joined his father’s bank. A gifted and energetic entrepreneur, he started many commercial enterprises – a cotton factory in 1801 and a beet-sugar factory in 1802. He became regent of the Bank of France (1802) and introduced the idea of a savings bank in France (with Jean-Conrad Hottingerces) in 1818. He was an ardent botanist and conchologist with a notable herbarium and a botanical library of 30 000 volumes. He wrote several books and financed several exquisitely illustrated shell books. He was made a baron by Napoleon.
Lessertia frutescens
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'shrub-like' from the Latin frutescens meaning ‘producing shoots’
Lycium
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Gk. lykion = name of a thorny bush/tree from Lycia in Asia Minor (Turkey) (Lycien, near Xanthos, ancient Anatolia), where the plant grows.
Lyperia
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Gk. lyperos = mournful, grief; referring to the fact that one species turns black after flowering.
Manulea
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La. manus = a hand, plus diminutive; referring to the corolla’s finger-like divisions – the appearance of the five spreading (upright) corolla lobes.
Massonia
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For Francis Masson (1741–1805), British gardener and plant collector for Kew Gardens. He was sent by Sir Joseph Banks to collect plants in South Africa and sailed with Captain James Cook to the Cape, where he stayed from 1772–1775. Two of his three expeditions were made jointly with Carl Peter Thunberg, who named this genus for him. From 1786–1795, he visited Madeira, the Canary Islands and Azores, West Indies, North America and North Africa. He collected more than 500 specimens including, now household names, the bird-of-paradise flower Strelitzia reginae and the arum lily Zantedeschia aethiopica among others such as Gladioli, Lobelia, Geranium, Pelargonium, Protea and Mesembryanthemum. He authored Stapeliae Novae on new South African succulents he discovered (1796).
Massonia pygmaea
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From the Latin pygmaea = ‘dwarfish’
Melolobium
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Gk. melos = a joint; lobion = diminutive of lobos = lobe, pod, capsule; referring to the joint-like constrictions between seeds.
Microloma
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Gk. mikros = very small; loma = edge or fringe; referring to the hairy corolla tube. The hairs are minute.
Monilaria
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La. monile = necklace (worn by boys, according to Cicero); -aria = connected with; referring to the succulent stems – ‘The thick stems are shortly jointed, resembling a bead necklace’ (Court).