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Table Mountain National Park
Table Mountain is a large sandstone mountain south of the City of Cape Town. The highest point is Maclears Beacon (1086m) it extends gradually down from there towards the west and the south, and steeply downwards to the north-east to Devil's Peak and beyond. Surrounding mountains include Lions head with signal hill to the NW, Little Lions Head to the SW. To the south lies Vlakkenberg and Silvermine Nature Reserve. Main threats to biodiversity are from ongoing development, particularly wine estates, alien invasives particularly various Acacia, Eucalyptus and pines, privet (Ligustrum lucidum and L. ovalifolium) and english oaks, barkstripping of trees, and collection of rare plants.
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Babiana sambucina
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Description:
Cormous geophyte, 5--14 cm, stem usually underground, shorter than leaves. Leaves lanceolate, hairy. Flowers zygomorphic, blue to purple with white markings, fragrant, tube elongate, straight. July--Sept. Rocky slopes and flats, fynbos and renosterveld, NW, SW, AP, KM, LB, SE (Bokkeveld Mts to Port Elizabeth, Karoo, E Cape).G
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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Indigofera
NE
4
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Short etymology:
Indigo is derived from the La. indicus, Gk. indikos, referring to India; La. ferax = bearing. Indigo is blue dye (cf I. tinctoria).
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Indigofera adscendens
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Short etymology:
From the Latin adscendo = 'ascending'
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Ixia latifolia
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Short etymology:
From the Latin lati / latus meaning ‘wide’; and folius meaning ‘leaf’; i.e. the plant is broad-leafed
Description:
Cormous geophyte, 20--50 cm. Leaves broad, often falcate. Flowers pink to purple, tube narrowly funnel-shaped. Sept.--Nov. Mostly clay soils in renosterveld, NW, SW, KM (Namaqualand to Paarl, Montagu and W Karoo).G
Moraea
NE
1
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Short etymology:
Linnaeus married Sara Elisabeth Moraea; her father was Dr. Johan Moraeus, the town physician of Falun. The name "Morea" was originally given by Philip Miller after "Robert More of Shropshire", but was taken over by Linnaeus and changed to Moraea.
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Oedera
NE
20
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Short etymology:
For Georg Christian Edler von Oldenburg Oeder (1728–1791), German botanist, physician and economist. He studied medicine at the University of Göttingen under Albrecht von Haller who, in 1751, persuaded King Frederick V of Denmark to appoint Oeder as professor botanices regius (royal professor). He developed a botanical garden and in 1753 he became the founding author of Flora Danica, a massive work initially designed to cover all plant species in the crown lands of the Danish King, which was only completed 153 years later. Oeder served on many commissions and was involved in agrarian and social reforms. In 1771 Oeder lost his professorship as a result of a financial crisis in Denmark and was given a lesser post as a bailiff in Oldenberg, then under Danish rule. Two years before his death he was ennobled by Joseph 11, Holy Roman Emperor of the Hapsburg lands (present-day Austria).
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Syncarpha
NE
20
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Short etymology:
Gk. syn- = together; karphos = a dry stalk, scale; possibly referring to the dry bracts that are united into a cone-like structure.
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Wiborgia
NE
20
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Short etymology:
For Eric Nissen Viborg (1759–1822), Danish veterinarian and botanist. He studied under Peter Christian Abildgaard (1780), became professor of botany at the University of Copenhagen (1797–1801), and director of the botanical garden. In 1801, he became professor and rector of the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural School in Copenhagen. He wrote important works on animal medicine, horse breeding, sheep farming and the treatment of infectious diseases in pigs. His botanical publications include a paper on the use of sand plants to stabilise the coast of Jutland (1789), and he did much work on systematising Danish names for indigenous plants (1793). He was a member of the Academy of Sciences and other societies. His name was misspelled by Carl Peter Thunberg.
