Monopsis simplex
Locality:
Name of observer:
Observer unknown (David)
Date observed:
17/09/2006 - 3:47pm
Collection:
Rondebosch Common
A small 40ha commonage in the Cape Flats of Cape Town. It is home to the critically endangered Cape Flats Sand Fynbos vegetation and includes renosterveld vegetation. It is funded by the City of Cape Town and managed by the Friends of Rondebosch Common. It has a long history of usage including as a cricket ground, airfield, military camp during more than one war, and a dumping ground and as a result has a large weedy component that threatens the remnant indigenous species. The largest threat is kikuyu grass though other aliens including pines threaten the flora. A large flock of guineafowl disturb soil and eat precious seeds and bulbs after fire. Other threats including trampling, illegal squatting, flowering picking, eutrification (nutrients) from dog faeces and the polluted water table and nitrification from airborne pollution,
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Public
Nodes
Trifolium angustifolium
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Name of observer:
Observer unknown (David)
Date observed:
17/09/2006 - 4:00pm
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Gazania pectinata
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Name of observer:
Observer unknown (David)
Date observed:
17/09/2006 - 3:53pm
Collection:
Felicia tenella
Locality:
Name of observer:
Observer unknown (David)
Date observed:
17/09/2006 - 3:47pm
Collection:
Albuca juncifolia
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Name of observer:
Observer unknown (David)
Date observed:
17/09/2006 - 3:11pm
Collection:
Heliophila
Locality:
Name of observer:
Observer unknown (David)
Date observed:
17/09/2006 - 3:31pm
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Crotalaria
Locality:
Name of observer:
Observer unknown (David)
Date observed:
17/09/2006 - 2:44pm
Collection:
Orchidaceae
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Name of observer:
Observer unknown (David)
Date observed:
17/09/2006 - 3:50pm
Collection:
Untitled
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Name of observer:
Observer unknown (David)
Date observed:
17/09/2006 - 3:37pm
Collection:
Romulea
Locality:
Name of observer:
Observer unknown (David)
Date observed:
17/09/2006 - 3:35pm
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Taxonomy term
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Albuca
NE
20
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Short etymology:
La. albus = white or albicans = becoming white; referring to the colouring of some Albuca flowers.
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Albuca juncifolia
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Short etymology:
From the Latin juncus = 'rush' and folius = 'lleaves'
Description:
Bulbous geophyte, 15--30 cm. Leaves several, slender and stiff, channelled below but often terete above, not clasping below. Flowers in drooping racemes, yellow with green keels, outer stamens sterile. Sept.--Oct. Sandy and calcareous flats, NW, SW, AP, LB (Ceres to Cape Peninsula to Mossel Bay).F
Asteraceae
NE
20
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Short etymology:
Named after the genus Aster. The name Aster comes from the Ancient Greek word ἀστήρ (astḗr), meaning "star", referring to the shape of the flower head.
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Crotalaria
NE
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Short etymology:
Gk. krotalos = rattle. The dry seed pods rattle when shaken.
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Disa
NE
20
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Short etymology:
Origin obscure. Börge Pettison believes the plant was named after Queen Disa who occurs in a Swedish legendary saga. The author, Peter Jonas Bergius, was a Swedish botanist.
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Felicia
NE
1
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Short etymology:
Origin uncertain. La. felix = happy, cheerful, though in the neuter plural form felicia = happy things; possibly a reference to the bright flowers. Other sources vaguely refer to a mysterious German official in Regensburg called Felix who died in 1846 but speculatively and more probably for the Italian Fortunato Bartolomeo de Felice (1723–1789), an Italian scholar established in Yverdon who led the European team that wrote the Yverdon Encyclopedia, published between 1770 and 1780 in 58 quarto volumes. This superseded the Parisian Encyclopedie of Diderot and d’Alembert published between 1751 and 1772.
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Felicia tenella
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Short etymology:
From the Latin tenellus meaning ‘somewhat tender’
Description:
Thinly hairy annual 5--25 cm. Leaves linear, scabrid on the margins. Flower heads radiate, solitary, blue, violet or white with yellow disc. Mainly Aug.--Nov. Near water or coastal dunes, NW, SW, AP, LB (Bokkeveld Mts to Albertinia).G
Gazania
NE
19
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Short etymology:
Gk. gaze, gaza = riches, royal treasure; chloe = grass; or possibly after Theodorus Gaza (many spellings of this name) (1398–1478), a Greek scholar who moved to Italy in 1430. He became professor in Greek at the University of Ferrara (1447) and a Greek-Latin translator for Pope Nicholas V (1450–1455). He worked for King Alfonso V of Aragon (Alphonso the Magnanimous) (1456–1458) and subsequently for Cardinal Bessarion. He translated many works including Aristotle’s Problemata, De Partibus Animalium, and De Generatione Animalium and Theophrastus’ Historia Plantarum, works by noted Greek authors, and a Greek grammar (four books). He is regarded as one of the greatest classical scholars and humanists of the Renaissance.
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Heliophila
NE
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Short etymology:
Gk. (h)elios = sun; philein = to love. The plant likes a sunny position.
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Monopsis
NE
5
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Short etymology:
Gk. mono- = one, single; -opsis = resembling; referring to the appearance of the corolla for most species. Every flower looks the same.
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Moraea
NE
1
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Short etymology:
Linnaeus married Sara Elisabeth Moraea; her father was Dr. Johan Moraeus, the town physician of Falun. The name "Morea" was originally given by Philip Miller after "Robert More of Shropshire", but was taken over by Linnaeus and changed to Moraea.
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ORCHIDACEAE
NE
20
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Short etymology:
From the Greek orchis, testis; referring to the resemblance to the twin pseudo-bulbs of some genera.
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Romulea
NE
1
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Short etymology:
For the legendary Romulus, founder and first king of Rome.
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Romulea hirsuta
(pienk Froetang)
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Short etymology:
From the Latin hirsutus = ‘hairy’
Description:
Cormous geophyte, 6--10 cm, corms symmetrical, bell-shaped, stem branching above ground. Basal leaves 2, sometimes solitary. Flowers pink to rose or coppery orange with dark marks at edge of yellow cup. Aug.--Sept. Sandstone or clay slopes and flats, NW, SW (Clanwilliam to Elim).
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