Skurweberge
West of the Koue Bokkeveld, the Skurweberg forms a formidable mountain range with the Sneeuberg peak being the highest on the range at 2025m elevation.
Nodes
Protea
Oxalis stokoei
Cliffortia triloba
Syncarpha variegata
Cyclopia buxifolia
Dimorphotheca montana
Zaluzianskya isanthera
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Chamarea
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Taxonomy term
Agathosma
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Gk. agathos = good; osmē = smell, odour; referring to fragrant oils in the glands of the leaves.
Amphithalea
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Gk. amphi = around; thallos = a green stalk; hence flowering all around the stem.
Arctotis
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Gk. arkto- = brown bear; -otis = an ear. The bear-like ears have been linked, variously, to the earlike pappus scales, outer involucral bracts or the shaggy fruit.
Arctotis verbascifolia
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Audouinia laxa
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From the Latin laxus = ‘loose’
Bolandia
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Afrikaans boland = lit. ‘up country’. A region in the Western Cape.
Brunia
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For Alexander Brown (f 1692–1698), a naval surgeon and plant collector who worked for the East India Company around 1690 and collected in India, the Cape, Spain and Arabia, etc. sending specimens to Plukenet (1641–1706), an English botanist, royal professor of botany and gardener to Queen Mary; James Petiver (c 1665–1718) a London apothecary; Jacob Bobart (c 1665–1718) in Oxford and to Charles du Bois (1656–1740), an English merchant and botanist, treasurer of the East India Company. He amassed a vast herbarium of East Indian plants. No further details are known.
Chamarea
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Gk. chamai = growing on the ground. Possibly this is from the Khoisan name chamare (Adamson), a kind of umbellifera.
Crassula
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La. crassus = thick; -ula = diminutive; referring to the fleshy succulent leaves.
Elytropappus
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Gk. elytron = a sheath, covering; pappos = down, fluff; referring to the small cup-like rim around the base of the feathery pappus (Plantzafrica.com); a second source says referring to the fluffy bracts.
Erica
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Gk. ereike = to break. The name used for a heath by Theophrastus (372–287 BCE) and Pliny the Elder. The stems are brittle and break easily (Lindsay); or possibly but less likely because of the ability of the plant to break up bladder stones (Paxton’s Botanical Dictionary).
Erica junonia
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Named after Juno, the queen goddess in Greek mythology.
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