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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Hermannia angularis
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Gladiolus maculatus
Erica planifolia var. planifolia
Asteraceae
Strumaria spiralis
Ruschia rubricaulis
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Leucadendron strobilinum
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Taxonomy term
Felicia
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Origin uncertain. La. felix = happy, cheerful, though in the neuter plural form felicia = happy things; possibly a reference to the bright flowers. Other sources vaguely refer to a mysterious German official in Regensburg called Felix who died in 1846 but speculatively and more probably for the Italian Fortunato Bartolomeo de Felice (1723–1789), an Italian scholar established in Yverdon who led the European team that wrote the Yverdon Encyclopedia, published between 1770 and 1780 in 58 quarto volumes. This superseded the Parisian Encyclopedie of Diderot and d’Alembert published between 1751 and 1772.
Felicia cymbalariae
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From the Latin ‘cymbalar’ / ‘cymbalaris’ meaning ‘a plant called the cotyledon’; and the Latin ‘iae’ / ‘ia’ meaning ‘adjectival suffix’.
Gibbaria ilicifolia
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Gladiolus maculatus
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From the Lation maculatus = 'spotted', 'stained' or 'blotched'
Gnidia
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Derivation uncertain. Linnaeus only states ‘habitat in Aethiopa’, Africa, where it is widely distributed. Possibly Gnidia was named after a Greek city, Knidos, where a kind of laurel grew, or Cnidus in Caria (modern Turkey) (Hugh Glen). Another possibility is that it could be a Greek word for Daphne or laurel; in Greek mythology, Daphne was a pretty nymph who was turned into a laurel bush (WPU Jackson). It might also have been named after Knossos in Crete (spelled Knidiossos in one version), with the G being substituted for K.
Gnidia juniperifolia
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From the Latin juniperus, a ‘juniper tree’ and folius = 'leaf'
Grubbia
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For Michael (Mikael) Grubb (af Grubbens) (1728–1808), Swedish botanist, mineralogist, merchant, botanical collector. He graduated with a PhD from Åbo Academy (later Helsinki University) (1748) and worked in Guangzhou, Canton (1749–1755), founding a branch there of the Swedish East India Company. He visited the Cape in 1764 and collected specimens, many bought from Johann Andreas Auge (q.v. Augea) and others, which he presented to Peter Jonas Bergius (1730–1790). This collection formed the basis of Bergius’s Descriptiones Plantarum ex Capita Bonae Spei Plantae Capenses (1767), a flora of the Cape Province. He became a director of the Swedish East India Company (1766–1769) and was elected a member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences in 1767 and knighted in 1768, when he took the name Af Grubbens.
Grubbia rosmarinifolia
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Helichrysum grandiflorum
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From Latin grandis = 'large' and flora = 'flower', referring to having large flowers.
Leucadendron
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Gk. leukos = white; dendron = tree; referring to commonly called ‘witteboom’ or ‘silver tree’.
Metalasia
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Gk. meta- = meaning reverse; lasios = shaggy, woolly. The leaves are twisted, rolled upward, to present the woolly side of the leaf from the top to the bottom.
Nemesia
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Gk. nemesion, nemeseion from nemo = to distribute, to enjoy, to pasture, to feed; or nemos = wooded pasture, glade, a grove; name used by Dioscorides for a similar plant, referring to their habitat.
Nemesia macrocarpa
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From the Greek makros = ‘big’ and karpos = ‘fruit’