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
Cyphia volubilis
Adenandra viscida
Erica sessiliflora
Lachnaea aurea
Gladiolus bullatus
Phaenocoma prolifera
Erica plukenetii
Erica
Struthiola striata
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Taxonomy term
Campanulaceae
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From the Latin campanula, little bell; "bell-flower".
Carissa
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Sanskrit name for an Indian species of this genus.
Chaenostoma
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Gk. khaino = gape, split, open; stoma = mouth; referring to the corolla tube, which opens widely.\
Chironia
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For Chiron, the good ‘civilised’ centaur of Greek mythology who studied medicine, astronomy, music and other arts. When he was accidentally shot, legend has it that Zeus, the god of sky and thunder, put him in the south at Alpha and Beta Centauri, pointers to the Southern Cross; referring to the plant’s medicinal properties.
Conicosia pugioniformis
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From the Latin ‘pugnioni’ / ‘pugnus’ meaning ‘fist’; and the Latin ‘formis’ / ‘formis’ meaning ‘in the form of’.
Corycium
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Gk. korys = helmet or helmet-like structure; korykion, diminutive of korykos = leather bag. The uppermost three tepals of this coarse, globose flower converge and touch, but not fused together into a hood (shape).
Corymbium
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Gk. korymbos = a cluster; referring to a flat-topped or rounded clustered inflorescence with the lower petals longer that the upper (i.e. a corymb).
Corymbium glabrum
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From the Latin glabra meaning ‘smooth’
Crassula
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La. crassus = thick; -ula = diminutive; referring to the fleshy succulent leaves.
Crassula rupestris
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From the Latin rupestris = ‘associated with caves or rocks’
Cullumia
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For Sir John Cullum (1733–1785), British botanist, geneologist, antiquarian, cleric and scholar, and author of History and Antiquities of Hawstead (1785), and his brother, Sir Thomas Gery Cullum (1741–1831), a medical practitioner, surgeon and botanist, member of the Linnaean Society, and author of Floræ Anglicæ Specimen imperfectum et ineditum (1774). Both became fellows of the Royal Society.
Cyphia
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Gk. kyphos = bent; referring to the shape of the style and stigma.
Cyphia incisa
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From the Latin incisus = 'cut into'