Gosela
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
06/10/2018 - 12:21pm
Collection:
Swartberg Mountains - northern Klein Karoo boundary
Separating the Klein Karoo from the Groot Karoo, this formidable range extends from near Laingsburg in the west to near Willowmore in the east and harbours some of the most spectacular mountain passes in the country. The mountains are replete with a diversity of endemic species including Protea aristata, arguably one of the most highly regarded of the Proteas.
Is private:
Public
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Lobostemon
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
06/10/2018 - 12:20pm
Collection:
Lobostemon
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
06/10/2018 - 12:19pm
Collection:
Anisodontea
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
06/10/2018 - 12:17pm
Collection:
Hermannia
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
06/10/2018 - 12:13pm
Collection:
Hermannia
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
06/10/2018 - 12:11pm
Collection:
Untitled
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
24/12/2006 - 10:57am
Collection:
Untitled
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
25/12/2006 - 9:19pm
Collection:
Untitled
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
22/12/2006 - 8:31am
Collection:
Untitled
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
23/12/2006 - 9:44pm
Collection:
Taxonomy term
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Anisodontea
NE
20
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Short etymology:
La. aniso- = unequal; -odontos = toothed; alluding to the irregularly dentate leaves.
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Athanasia pachycephala
No pictures
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Short etymology:
Description:
Diffuse, sparsely to densely woolly shrublet to 60 cm. Leaves linear to obovate, ascending. Flower heads discoid, 1--few in simple terminal corymbs, yellow, paleate, florets 40--160, glandular-hairy in a basal ring. Dec.--May. Sandstone slopes, NW, KM (Cedarberg to Kammanassie Mts).G
Calotesta
NE
1
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Short etymology:
Gk. kalos = beauty; testa = outer coat of seed. The plant is characterised by its persistent, thick and strongly cutinised testa epidermis (Perola Karis).
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Gosela
NE
1
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Short etymology:
Derivation not stated in original publication, presumably an anagram of Selago.
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Hermannia
NE
4
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Short etymology:
For Paul Hermann (1646–1695), German-born Dutch physician and botanist. He graduated in medicine at the universities of Leiden and Padua, became a ship’s medical officer (1672–1677) for the Dutch East India Company and went to Sri Lanka via the Cape, where he made the first known herbarium collection of local plants, now housed in the Sloane Herbarium, British Museum of Natural History and at Oxford. In 1679 he became professor of botany at the University of Leiden and director of the Hortus Botanicus in Leiden, Europe’s finest botanical garden. His 1687 publication Horti Academici Lugduno-Batavi Catalogus includes 34 Cape plants, and his proposed Prodomus Plantaerum Africanarum was to contain 791 items, but untimely death intervened.
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Holothrix
NE
20
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Short etymology:
Gk. holos = entire, whole; thrix (thricos) = hair; the plant is hairy all over.
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Lobostemon
NE
20
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Short etymology:
Gk. lobos = lobe; stemon = thread, stamen; referring to the filaments being opposite the corolla lobes.
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Nivenia
NE
13
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Short etymology:
For James Niven (1776–1827), Scottish gardener at the Royal Botanical Garden of Edinburgh and at Syon House, Middlesex. He collected plants in South Africa from 1798–1803 for his patron, George Hibbert, in Clapham, London. Three months after his return to England he went back to the Cape as botanical collector for Empress Josephine of France and James Lee and John Kennedy of the Vineyard Nursery, Hammersmith, near London. He spent a further nine years at the Cape collecting herbarium specimens, seeds and bulbs but also visiting areas such as Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape to Clanwilliam northwest of Cape Town, returning to England in 1812 and setting up his own business, unrelated to botany.
