
Naude's Nek Pass
At the southernmost tip of Lesotho, in the Drakensberg range, lies the spectacular Naude's Nek pass.
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Satyrium neglectum

Satyrium neglectum

Moraea trifida

Disperis

Dierama pauciflorum

Galtonia viridiflora

Glumicalyx

Limosella vesiculosa

Selago galpinii
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Taxonomy term
Kniphofia
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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.
Kniphofia triangularis
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From the Latin ‘triangularis’ / ‘triangularis’ meaning ‘triangular’
Lobelia
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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.
Manulea parviflora
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From the Latin parvus = ‘small’ and flora = ‘flower’.
Massonia wittebergensis
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From the Witteberg mountains of the northern Klein Karoo of South Africa
Ornithogalum
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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.
Psammotropha mucronata
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From the Latin mucronatus = ‘sharp pointed’.
Ranunculus multifidus
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From the Latin multi = ‘many’ and fidus = ‘cleavage / divided'. The leaves are divided
Romulea macowanii
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Commemorating the botanist Peter MacOwan (1830-1909)
Romulea thodei
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Honouring Justus Thode (1859-1932), a German naturalist and itinerant tutor
Satyrium longicauda
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