Overberg Region
The southernmost portion of Africa, south of the Langeberg mountains and east of the Hottentots Holland Mountains, and west of the Garden Route. It is a highly transformed landscape with only remnants of renosterveld (<4%) remaining.
Nodes
Romulea
Romulea rosea
Romulea dichotoma
Romulea flava
Romulea atrandra
Romulea rosea
Romulea rosea
Romulea dichotoma
Syringodea longituba
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Taxonomy term
Gethyllis
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Possibly Gk. getheo = I rejoice; ullus = diminutive, but most sources say from gethyon = a bulb, onion or species of leek. The bulbs of this genus are somewhat similar to those of the leek.
Gethyllis
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Possibly Gk. getheo = I rejoice; ullus = diminutive, but most sources say from gethyon = a bulb, onion or species of leek. The bulbs of this genus are somewhat similar to those of the leek.
Gibbaria ilicifolia
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Gladiolus
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La. gladiolus = a small sword; referring to the sword-like shape of the leaves.
Gnidia
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Derivation uncertain. Linnaeus only states ‘habitat in Aethiopa’, Africa, where it is widely distributed. Possibly Gnidia was named after a Greek city, Knidos, where a kind of laurel grew, or Cnidus in Caria (modern Turkey) (Hugh Glen). Another possibility is that it could be a Greek word for Daphne or laurel; in Greek mythology, Daphne was a pretty nymph who was turned into a laurel bush (WPU Jackson). It might also have been named after Knossos in Crete (spelled Knidiossos in one version), with the G being substituted for K.
Gnidia viridis
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From the Latin viridis = 'green'.
Gomphocarpus cancellatus
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From the Latin ‘cancellatus’ / ‘cancellatus’ meaning ‘trellised’
Haemanthus
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Gk. haima = blood; anthos = flower. The colour of the (flower) perianth is red in many species.
Haemanthus
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Gk. haima = blood; anthos = flower. The colour of the (flower) perianth is red in many species.
Haemanthus
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Gk. haima = blood; anthos = flower. The colour of the (flower) perianth is red in many species.
Haemanthus
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Gk. haima = blood; anthos = flower. The colour of the (flower) perianth is red in many species.
Harveya
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For William Henry Harvey (1811–1866), Irish-born botanist, algologist and pioneer of South African systematic botany, colonial treasurer general of the Cape Colony, keeper of the herbarium at Trinity College, Dublin, professor of botany for the Royal Dublin Society and at Trinity College, Dublin, and Fellow of the Linnaean and Royal societies. He came to the Cape in 1834, aged 23, and stayed about four years. He wrote The Genera of South African Plants (1838), Manual of British Algae (1841), Phycologia Britannica (1846–1851), Phycologia Australica (1858–1863) and was co-author, with Dr OW Sonder of Hamburg, of the first three volumes of Flora Capensis (1860–1865). He collected along the Atlantic coast of the United States and Australia and Tasmania in the South Seas.
Haworthia
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For Adrian Hardy Haworth (1768–1833), English botanist, entomologist, carcinologist and an authority on succulents and lepidoptera. He did pioneering work in North America, Canada and Mexico focusing on cacti, and published Synopsis Plantarum Succulentarum (1819) with subsequent supplements. In England he collected and studied butterflies, publishing Lepidoptera Britannica (1803–1828). During his life he amassed a collection of over 40 000 insects. He was a Fellow of the Linnaean and Royal Horticultural societies and a friend of Sir Joseph Banks. In 1833 he lent support to the founding of what was to become the Royal Entomological Society of London.
Haworthia heidelbergensis
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From the Town of Heidelberg either in Johannesburg or more likely the town along the N2 in the Southern Cape between Swellendam and Riversdale
Haworthia minima
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from the Latin 'minima' meaning small; referring to the small size of the plants