Tulbaghia montana
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
08/02/2008 - 12:32pm
Collection:
Naude's Nek Pass
At the southernmost tip of Lesotho, in the Drakensberg range, lies the spectacular Naude's Nek pass.
Is private:
Public
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Satyrium neglectum
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
08/02/2008 - 12:11pm
Collection:
Satyrium neglectum
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
08/02/2008 - 11:39am
Collection:
Moraea trifida
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
08/02/2008 - 11:04am
Collection:
Disperis
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
08/02/2008 - 10:41am
Collection:
Dierama pauciflorum
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
08/02/2008 - 9:51am
Collection:
Galtonia viridiflora
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
17/01/2012 - 5:08pm
Collection:
Glumicalyx
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
17/01/2012 - 3:57pm
Collection:
Limosella vesiculosa
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
17/01/2012 - 4:15pm
Collection:
Selago galpinii
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
17/01/2012 - 3:59pm
Collection:
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Taxonomy term
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Kniphofia
NE
1
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Short etymology:
For Johann(es) Hieronymus Kniphof (1704–1763), German physician, lecturer, professor of medicine at the University of Erfurt (1737), becoming dean of the medical faculty (1747) and rector from 1661 until his death. Author of a folio of natureprinted illustrations of plants in 1733, followed by a significantly expanded second edition in 1747 and third edition in 1757–1759 containing 1 200 botanical images that were produced by a somewhat unique process, whereby dried plant specimens were coated with printer’s ink and pressed on paper, resulting in a silhouette effect. His book Botanica in Originali Seu Herbarium Vivum (1757–1764) was the first significant work to follow Linnaeus’s nomenclature.
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Kniphofia triangularis
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Short etymology:
From the Latin ‘triangularis’ / ‘triangularis’ meaning ‘triangular’
G
Lobelia
NE
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Short etymology:
For Mathias de L’Obel (Lobel, Lobelius) (1538–1616), Flemish botanist, traveller, plant collector. He studied medicine in Leuven and Montpellier and practised medicine from 1571–1581 in Antwerp and Delft, where he was physician to William, Prince of Orange. In 1584 he left the Netherlands for England to escape the civil war and never returned. He became physician to King James I of England and also the king’s botanist. His major work, written in collaboration with Pierre Pena, was Stirpium Adversaria Nova (1571), which describes some 1 500 species in the vicinity of Montpellier, also of Tyrol, Switzerland and the Netherlands. A second volume, Plantarum Historia Stirpium, was published in 1576 with more than 2 000 illustrations, and a further work, Icones Stirpium, seu, Plantarum Tam Exoticarum in 1591.
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Manulea parviflora
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Short etymology:
From the Latin parvus = ‘small’ and flora = ‘flower’.
S
Massonia wittebergensis
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Short etymology:
From the Witteberg mountains of the northern Klein Karoo of South Africa
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Ornithogalum
NE
1
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Short etymology:
Gk. ornithos = bird; gala = milk, presumably referring to the colostrum-like, high fat secretions produced by the Colombidae (‘pigeon’s milk’) and stored in the crop for feeding the young. Maybe this somewhat resembles the gooey sap that exudes from the cut stems. Some authors suggest that the name merely refers to the milky whiteness of some flowers, while ‘bird’s milk’ to the ancient Greeks was a colloquial expression for something wonderful.
S
Psammotropha mucronata
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Short etymology:
From the Latin mucronatus = ‘sharp pointed’.
S
Ranunculus multifidus
(Buttercup)
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Short etymology:
From the Latin multi = ‘many’ and fidus = ‘cleavage / divided'. The leaves are divided
Description:
Tufted, silky perennial to 90 cm. Leaves pinnatisect or bipinnatisect, segments toothed. Flowers in open panicles, yellow. Achenes warty, 1.5--2 mm long. Aug.--Mar. Damp places, NW, SW, AP, LB, SE (Namaqualand to Cape Peninsula to Arabia).
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Romulea macowanii
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Short etymology:
Commemorating the botanist Peter MacOwan (1830-1909)
S
Romulea thodei
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Short etymology:
Honouring Justus Thode (1859-1932), a German naturalist and itinerant tutor
S
Satyrium longicauda
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Description:
Stout tuberous geophyte to 80 cm. Leaves 1 or 2, ovate, on a separate shoot next to flowering stem, bracts deflexed. Flowers many in a lax raceme, white to pink and usually partly with pink tinge, spurs filiform, 15--46 mm long. Dec.--Feb. Moist grassland, SE (Plettenberg Bay to tropical Africa).Pages
