Transvaal
This is the evocative region of South Africa formerly known as the Transvaal. Named after being on the other (trans) side of the Vaal river from the Cape, it is fabled for its grassland, savanna and karroid (Karoo) vegetation. The post-apartheid government split this region into multiple provinces: Gauteng, North-West, Limpopo and Mpumalanga. The short-story writer and journalist, Herman Charles Bosman wrote many short stories set in the Groot Marico district of the Transvaal.
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Tephrosia rhodesica
Setaria sphacelata var. sericea
Sphedamnocarpus galphimiifolius
Solanum sisymbriifolium
Tapinanthus natalitius
Setaria verticillata
Setaria sphacelata var. sericea
Tristachya leucothrix
Veronica
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Cyperus obtusiflorus var. obtusiflorus
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From the Latin obtusus = ‘blunt' and flora = 'flower'
Cyphostemma oleraceum
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From the Latin oleris = 'vegetable'
Cyrtanthus galpinii
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Named after Ernest Edward Galpin (1858-1941), a South African botanist and banker. He left some 16,000 sheets to the National Herbarium in Pretoria and was dubbed "the Prince of Collectors" by General Smuts. Galpin discovered half a dozen genera and many hundreds of new species.
Cyrtanthus huttonii
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Named after Harry Hutton, amateur botanist in the mid-nineteenth century
Cyrtanthus stenanthus var. major
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From the Latin major = 'long', 'big', 'tall', 'powerful', 'broad'.
Delosperma cooperi
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Named in honour of English botanist Thomas Cooper (1815-1913). He collected many plants in the Drakensberg mountains
Delosperma lydenburgense
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Lydenburg is a town in Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Alternatively known as Mashishing, Lydenburg is situated on the Sterkspruit/Dorps River tributary of the Lepelle River at the base of the Long Tom Pass. The name is derived from the Dutch Lijdenburg, or "Town of Suffering"
Dicoma anomala subsp. anomala
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From the Latin anomalus = ‘abnormal’
Disa cooperi
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Named in honour of English botanist Thomas Cooper (1815-1913). He collected many plants in the Drakensberg mountains
Disa patula var. transvaalensis
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From the former Transvaal Province of South Africa; now Gauteng Province. Trans meaning 'across', and vaal refers to the Vaal River, it being on the far side of the river from the Cape.
Dolichos angustifolius
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From the Latin angustus = ‘narrow’; and folius = ‘leaf’.