Soetmuisberg
An east-west range of mountains in the Agulhas / Overberg region between the towns of Elim and Napier/Bredasdorp. Much of hte land is held within a conservancy, but is threatened by alien infestations of both pine, Leptospermum laevigatum and wattle. A botanical survey was done by Ross Turner in 2007 which he rediscovered Erica recurvata, only known from a plate published in Andrew's Heathery in 1845.
Nodes
Mimetes cucullatus
Protea aspera
Aulax umbellata
Leucospermum heterophyllum
Leucadendron tinctum
Serruria elongata
Paranomus abrotanifolius
Protea aspera
Protea
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Taxonomy term
Erica ampullacea
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From the Latin ampullaceus = flask-shaped, referring to the shape of the flower
Erica banksii
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Honoring Sir Joseph Banks, botanist on Cpt. Cook’s voyage and the first European to collect this taxon.
Erica cerinthoides
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From the Greek ‘cerinth’ / ‘kerinthe’ meaning ‘honeywort’; and the Greek ‘oides’ / ‘oides’ meaning ‘in the form of’.
Erica coccinea
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From the Latin coccineus = ‘scarlet’
Erica globiceps
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Erica hispidula
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From the Latin hispidus meaning ‘rough’, with bristles
Erica parviflora
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From the Latin parvus = ‘small’ and flora = ‘flower’.
Erica plukenetii
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From the English ‘plunkenetii’ / ‘Plunkenet’ ‘commemorating the English botanist Leonard Plukenet (1641-1706).
Erica rubiginosa
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From the Latin rubiginosus = ‘reddish-brown’ or 'rust-coloured'
Erica tenella
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From the Latin tenellus meaning ‘somewhat tender’
Erica viscaria
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From the Latin ‘viscaria’ / ‘viscarius’ meaning ‘resembling mistletoe?????’
Ficinia
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For Heinrich David August Ficinus (1782–1857), German physician, naturalist, botanist, professor of physics and chemistry at the medical-surgical academy in Dresden (1814), then was professor of natural history (1817). From 1822 onwards he worked in his father’s pharmacy but also taught chemistry, technology and physics at the Technical Training Institute in Dresden (1828–1833). He wrote several literary works, textbooks and papers in the fields of botany, optics and mineral chemistry. They include Flora of the Area around Dresden (1807), Optics or Attempts to Follow the Right Outline of the Whole Theory of Light (1828), Foundations of Medical Physics, Foundations of Medicinal Chemistry (1815), and General Natural History (1839) (titles translated from German).
Grubbia rosmarinifolia
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Hakea gibbosa
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From the Latin gibbosus = ‘humped / pouched / tuberculed'
Hakea sericea
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From the Latin sericea meaning ‘silky’