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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MESEMBRYANTHEMACEAE
MESEMBRYANTHEMACEAE
Dimorphotheca
Ornithogalum
Hibiscus aethiopicus
Oxalis hirta
Oxalis
Senecio pinifolius
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Taxonomy term
Clutia
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For Theodorus Augerius Clutius (Outgers Cluyt) (1577–1636), Dutch botanist, horticulturalist, beekeeper and pharmacist, eldest son of Dirck Outgaertszoon Cluyt (Clutius) (1550–1598) from Delft, an apothecary, curator of the Leiden botanical garden, and an authority on medicinal herbs. Outgers studied and worked with his father in the garden. After his father died he hoped to become his successor, but failed in the attempt. Thereafter, he studied at the University of Montpellier for several years. Between 1602–1608 he travelled to France, Germany and Spain, and also, later, on three occasions to the desert of Barbary in North Africa to increase his knowledge and collect plants for the Leiden botanical garden. Leiden University rewarded him handsomely for his efforts. On his return to the Netherlands (1618), he worked as a physician and during that time worked hard to promote the Amsterdam Hortus Botanicus where he obtained a job against strong opposition. Herman Boerhaave honoured Outgers (and his father) by naming Clutia pulchella after them.
Cullumia
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For Sir John Cullum (1733–1785), British botanist, geneologist, antiquarian, cleric and scholar, and author of History and Antiquities of Hawstead (1785), and his brother, Sir Thomas Gery Cullum (1741–1831), a medical practitioner, surgeon and botanist, member of the Linnaean Society, and author of Floræ Anglicæ Specimen imperfectum et ineditum (1774). Both became fellows of the Royal Society.
Cullumia ciliaris subsp. ciliaris
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From the Latin ciliaris = ‘relating to the eyelash or fine hairs’
Disa
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Origin obscure. Börge Pettison believes the plant was named after Queen Disa who occurs in a Swedish legendary saga. The author, Peter Jonas Bergius, was a Swedish botanist.
Disa harveyana
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Named after William Henry Harvey (1811–1866), Irish botanist and algalologist, curator of Trinity College Herbarium, and author of Phycologia Britannica,Genera of South African Plants and of the first three volumes of Flora Capensis. As treasurer-general he resided at Bishopscourt and undertook most of his early collecting and documenting from there. He ultimately described over 750 species and over 75 genera of algae.
Disparago
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La. dispar = unlike, dissimilar; -ago = resemblance or connection; referring to the different sorts of floret in each tiny capitulum.
Erica
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Gk. ereike = to break. The name used for a heath by Theophrastus (372–287 BCE) and Pliny the Elder. The stems are brittle and break easily (Lindsay); or possibly but less likely because of the ability of the plant to break up bladder stones (Paxton’s Botanical Dictionary).
Erica abietina
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From the Latin abies meaning ‘silver fir’ and the Latin -tina an adjectival suffix implying likeness; i.e. resembling the silver fir
Erica coccinea
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From the Latin coccineus = ‘scarlet’
Erica depressa
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From the Latin depressus = 'sunken'
Erica planifolia var. planifolia
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From the Latin planus = 'flat', 'level' or 'plane' and folia = 'leaf'
Eucalyptus lehmannii
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Honouring J.G.C. Lehmann (1792 - 1860), a Hamburg botanist who was an acquainteance of Klotzch. He described the cycad genus Encephalartos and published a book on the cycads in 1860
Eulophia aculeata
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From the Latin ‘aculeata’ / ‘aculeatus’ meaning ‘prickly’
Rhizomatous geophyte to 25 cm. Leaves partly or fully developed at flowering, linear-lanceolate, pleated. Flowers few to many in a dense raceme, dull ivory to white, tepals scarcely spreading, median sepal oblong, 6--16 mm long, lip crests of ridges and lamellate papillae, spur absent. Nov.--Jan. Fynbos and grassland, SW, AP, LB, SE (Cape Peninsula to Mpumalanga).
Euryops
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Gk. eurys = large or broad; ops = eye or face; referring to the large showy capitula or flower head.
Euryops abrotanifolius
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From the Latin abrotanum from Artemesia abrotanum = 'Southernwood' and folium = 'leaf'; hence 'leaves like Southernwood'