Namibia
Nodes
Ceraria namaquensis
Ruschia odontocalyx
Cadaba aphylla
Cotyledon orbiculata var. orbiculata
Stoeberia gigas
Crassula macowaniana
Anacampseros albissima
Heliophila deserticola
Cleome foliosa var. lutea
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Taxonomy term
Dischisma spicatum
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From the Latin spicatus = ‘spiked’
Dracophilus dealbatus
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From Latin alba = white, dealbatus meaning '"whitewashed", referring to the pale leaf colour
Dracophilus delaetianus
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Named after Fr. de laet, a Belgian collector of succulents in the early 20th century. His promotion of cacti drew many people to the cactus-growing hobby
Drosanthemum albens
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From the Latin albens meaning ‘turning white’ or 'whitened'
Drosanthemum pauper
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from Latin pauper = "not wealthy / poor". These organisms are typically skinny and emasciated.
Drosanthemum subcompressum
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Dyerophytum
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For Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (1843–1928), British botanist and third director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He studied mathematics and natural sciences at Oxford, and thereafter held various professorships before taking up a professorship at the Royal Horticultural Society in London in 1872. He became assistant director at Kew in 1875, director in 1885 and retired in 1905. During his tenure he created an international research laboratory at Kew, introduced a new rock garden, and helped Sri Lanka and Malaya develop rubber plantations. He authored an English edition of Julius Sachs’s Text-Book of Botany (1875), editions of the Flora Capensis and of the Flora of Tropical Africa, and Index Kewensis (1905). Gk. phyton = plant.
Dyerophytum africanum
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From the Latin africanus meaning "from Africa"
Ebracteola derenbergiana
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Named after Julius Derenberg (1873-1928), a colleague and friend of Dinter.
Ectadium latifolium
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From the Latin lati / latus meaning ‘wide’; and folius meaning ‘leaf’; i.e. the plant is broad-leafed
Eremothamnus marlothianus
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Named after Hermann Wilhelm Rudolf Marloth (1855-1931), a German-born pharmacist, analytical chemist and botanist who collected plants in Namibia in 1886, discovering over 100 new species. A brilliant naturalist who translated his insightful observations together with art in his seminal Flora of South Africa.