Riviersonderend Mountains
Mountains above Riviersonderend
Nodes
ORCHIDACEAE
Satyrium
Hermas
Ornithogalum
Plantae
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Oxalis
Platylophus trifoliatus
Ornithogalum
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Taxonomy term
Indigofera
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Indigo is derived from the La. indicus, Gk. indikos, referring to India; La. ferax = bearing. Indigo is blue dye (cf I. tinctoria).
Indigofera frutescens
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'shrub-like' from the Latin frutescens meaning ‘producing shoots’
Knowltonia
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For Thomas Knowlton (1691–1781), English horticulturist, well known in his lifetime as a botanist and gardener with a special interest in nature, wildflowers and hothouse exotics. He was the director of the once famous botanical garden at Eltham. His life story, No Ordinary Gardener, was written by Blanche Henrey (British museum, 1896). He designed many gardens for the wealthy and collected and grew plants from around the world.
Linconia
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Named by Linnaeus in 1771 after an unidentified person or place.
Macledium latifolium
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From the Latin lati / latus meaning ‘wide’; and folius meaning ‘leaf’; i.e. the plant is broad-leafed
Mairia
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For Louis Maire (f 1815–1833), Prussian plant collector. He served in the Napoleonic Wars with Johannes Ludwig Leopold Mund (Mundia q.v.) and Peter Jonas Bergius (Bergia q.v.). After training as a gardener, he was sent to the Cape with Mund by the Berlin Museum to collect plants and natural history specimens. At least two large consignments were sent to Europe, but their productivity slackened, and Berlin recalled them. They ignored the order. Mund became a surveyor, and Maire apparently set up as a doctor. In 1833 the French Protestant missionary Eugene Casalis met with a ‘Dr Lemaire’, possibly the same man, at Graaff-Reinet, who said he had been a surgeon in the Prussian army when they entered Paris in 1815 and that afterward the King of Prussia had dispatched him on a botanical expedition to South Africa.
Mairia crenata
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From the Latin crenatus = ‘notched' or 'battlemented', like the wall of a castle
Osmitopsis pinnatifida
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From the Latin pinnatifidus = ‘divided into feathers’
Persicaria capitata
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From the Latin capitatus meaning ‘equipped with a head’, tyically referring to the arrangement of the flowers in a head-like inflorescence.