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
Tittmannia laxa
Erica
Oxalis heterophylla
Phyllopodium viscidissimum
Crassula
Heliophila nubigena
Muraltia
Phylica tuberculata
Spatalla
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Taxonomy term
Rafnia
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For Carl (Karl) Gottlob Rafn (1769–1808), Danish civil servant, botanist and science writer. He studied medicine and botany at the University of Copenhagen in 1788, and later veterinary science, but did not take the exams. He had a range of jobs such as an agriculture assessor and director of a distillery, but his main interests were natural history and science. He authored or co-authored a range of publications, including the Flora of Denmarks and Holstein, a book on plant physiology (1798), a paper on animal hibernation with JD Herholdt, and a book on life-saving measures for drowning persons. He became a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences in 1798.
Restio nanus
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From the Latin nana / nanus meaning ‘dwarf’; typically referring to the plants small stature
Restio strobilifer
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Senecio
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La. senex = an old man. The white, hairy pappus of the seeds is reminiscent of an old man’s beard.
Serruria
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For Joseph (Josephus) Serrurier (1663–1742), Dutch physician, philosopher, mathematician, botanist and physicist. He studied at the University of Utrecht, obtaining an MA degree in 1690 and qualifying as a doctor of medicine on the same day. During his career at Utrecht, he became professor of philosophy and mathematics (1705), professor of botany and medicine (1716), and the university’s rector on three occasions. Among his works, he authored an extensive treatise on experimental physics, Physicae Experimentis Innixae Compendiosa Tractatio (1700), a commemorative volume on Adrianus Reland, orientalist, linguist and physicist; and created a new hortus botanicus, which he modelled on the University of Leiden’s widely acclaimed botanical garden designed by Herman Boerhaave.
Spatalla
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Gk. spatalos = wanton, riotous. A sexual allusion to the unusually large pollen presenters on so small a flower. Commonly known as ‘spoons’.
Syncarpha canescens
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From the Latin canescens = ‘becoming white’
Tittmannia laxa
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From the Latin laxus = ‘loose’
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