Hermas gigantea
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
02/06/2007 - 3:52pm
Collection:
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.
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Nodes
Protea
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
02/06/2007 - 3:47pm
Collection:
Oxalis stokoei
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
02/06/2007 - 3:25pm
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Cliffortia triloba
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
13/10/2016 - 11:47am
Collection:
Syncarpha variegata
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
13/10/2016 - 10:13am
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Cyclopia buxifolia
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Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
13/10/2016 - 9:53am
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Dimorphotheca montana
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
13/10/2016 - 1:17pm
Collection:
Zaluzianskya isanthera
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
13/10/2016 - 1:14pm
Collection:
Untitled
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
13/10/2016 - 1:07pm
Collection:
Chamarea
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
13/10/2016 - 1:03pm
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Taxonomy term
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Agathosma
NE
20
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Short etymology:
Gk. agathos = good; osmē = smell, odour; referring to fragrant oils in the glands of the leaves.
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Amphithalea
NE
20
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Short etymology:
Gk. amphi = around; thallos = a green stalk; hence flowering all around the stem.
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Arctotis
NE
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Short etymology:
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.
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Arctotis verbascifolia
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Short etymology:
Description:
Like A. undulata but leaves white-felted on both surfaces, ovate-subcordate, margins crenate, ray florets cream, pink to purple on reverse, involucral bracts with tails short or lacking. Sept.--Oct. Sandstone slopes, NW (Witzenberg and Skurfdeberg).S
Audouinia laxa
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Short etymology:
From the Latin laxus = ‘loose’
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Bolandia
NE
2
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Short etymology:
Afrikaans boland = lit. ‘up country’. A region in the Western Cape.
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Brunia
NE
12
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Short etymology:
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.
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Chamarea
NE
5
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Short etymology:
Gk. chamai = growing on the ground. Possibly this is from the Khoisan name chamare (Adamson), a kind of umbellifera.
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Crassula
NE
1
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Short etymology:
La. crassus = thick; -ula = diminutive; referring to the fleshy succulent leaves.
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Elytropappus
NE
6
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Short etymology:
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.
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Erica
NE
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Short etymology:
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).
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Erica junonia
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Short etymology:
Named after Juno, the queen goddess in Greek mythology.
Description:
Low compact spreading shrublet to 30 cm. Flowers large, tubular-ampullaceous, with spreading lobes, bright pink. Nov.--Jan. High peaks, NW (Cedarberg to Hex River Mts).Pages
