Table Mountain National Park (TMNP) - core area
This is the flagship park of SANParks, situated in the heart of Cape Town or 'The Mother City'. There are over 1500 species known from the Table Mountain area itself N of Constantia Nek. Over 2200 species occur in the whole park, which includes Lions Head and Signal Hill and the mountains on the Cape Peninsula through to Cape Point itself.
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Felicia cymbalariae
Wahlenbergia parvifolia

Oxalis obtusa

Oxalis versicolor

Gladiolus maculatus

Oxalis

Strumaria spiralis

Senecio elegans

Orbea variegata
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Taxonomy term
Adenandra
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Gk. aden = gland; -andra = male, stamens; alluding to the appearance of the stamens (glandbearing anthers).
Adenandra villosa
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Adenandra villosa subsp. umbellata
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From the Latin umbellatus meaning ‘equipped with parasols’. This typically refers to an umbellate arrangement of flowers.
Adenandra villosa subsp. umbellata
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From the Latin umbellatus meaning ‘equipped with parasols’. This typically refers to an umbellate arrangement of flowers.
Adromischus hemisphaericus
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From the Latin hemi- = 'half' and sphaerica = ‘spherical’, referring to forming a dome-like semi-circular form
Anaxeton
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Gk. anaxein = to polish; alluding to the shiny upper surface of the leaves.
Anaxeton laeve
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From the Latin laeve = 'light', 'left', 'harmful' or 'unfavorable' or from laevis = 'smooth'
Bobartia
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For Jacob Bobart (1599–1680), German botanist and the first horti praefectus (superintendent, head gardener) of the Oxford Physic Garden; which cultivated medical herbs; the first garden of its kind in England. He was the author of Catalogus Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis, sci Latino-Anglicus et Anglico-Latinus (1648); a catalogue of 1600 plants that were in the garden. His son, Jacob Bobart the Younger (1641–1719), succeeded his father as horti praefectus and became acting professor of botany at Oxford.
Bulbine alooides
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From the Latin -oides = 'resembling', or 'like'; i.e. resembling the genus Aloe (Liliaceae)
Bulbinella
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Bulbine (q.v.); Gk. -ellus, -ella = diminutive.
Bulbinella nutans
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From the Latin ‘nutans’ / ‘nutans’ meaning ‘nodding’
Cliffortia
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For George Clifford (1685–1760), Dutch merchant and banker, amateur botanist and zoologist. He was a director of the Dutch East India Company and owned a magnificent garden at Hartecamp, Netherlands, as well as a private zoo in Amsterdam. George Clifford is best known as a patron of the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus, whom he employed as ‘hortulanus’ and who catalogued the family’s unique collection of plants, herbarium and library. The result was Linnaeus’s 530-page book Hortus Cliffortianus (1738), his first important work, in which he described many species from Clifford’s garden. The publication was paid for by George Clifford as a private edition.
Cliffortia ruscifolia
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With leaves resembling the genus Ruscus (Asparagaceae)
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