West Coast Municipal District (DC1)
This is a broad mainly lowland municipal region of the Cape (Code DC1) that extends from the coast north of Cape Town to Namaqualand. It includes many of the the mountains of the Cedarberg, Piketberg and a portion of the Roggeveld escarpment. It extends north till the borderline with the Northern Cape - between Garies and Bitterfontein and in line with Lepelfontein near the coast. The West Coast lowlands region is a far smaller region that excludes the Cedarberg mountains and ends further south around Van Rhynsdorp.
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Oncosiphon africanum
Salvia
Aloe mitriformis
Lyperia
Trachyandra ciliata
Hyobanche sanguinea
Trachyandra divaricata
Zaluzianskya villosa
Babiana hirsuta
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Taxonomy term
Ruschia
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For Ernst Julius Rusch (1867–1957), Namibian farmer, businessman and plant collector. He came to South-West Africa (Namibia) in 1890, where he grew succulent plants and later established a nursery at Lichtenstein, near Windhoek, Namibia. He and his son Ernst Franz Rusch Jnr (1897–1964) made many collecting trips together. He was one of the founders of Windhoek, and was given freedom of the city on his 60th birthday.
Salvia
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La. salvia = the sage plant; a name used by Pliny the Elder, from La. salvere = to heal; referring to the medicinal properties claimed for some species.
Sarcocaulon
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Gk. sarx, sarkos (sarco) = flesh; kaulon = stem; referring to the fleshy appearance of the stem.
Satyrium erectum
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From the Latin erectus = 'upright'
Septulina glauca
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From the Latin glaucus = 'blue-grey'. Typically referring to the leaf colour
Serruria decipiens
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From the Latin decipiens = ‘deceptive’ or 'false' / 'to catch' or 'trap'; usually referring to its similarity to another taxon
Sparaxis
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Gk. sparasso = to rend or tear; relating to the bracts that are lacerated or cut into segments.
Spiloxene ovata
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From the Latin ovatus = ‘egg-shaped’
Struthiola confusa
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From the Latin confusus = 'disordered' or 'obscure'; generally either a species that is difficult to distinguish from another, or with a confusing taxonomic history
Sutera uncinata
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From the Latin uncinatus = ‘furnished with hooks’
Thesium pubescens
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From the Latin pubescens meaning ‘downy’ with short soft hairs
Thesium spinosum
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From the Latin spinosus = ‘thorny’
Ursinia anthemoides
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Zaluzianskya
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For Adam Zalusiansky von Zaluzian (1558–1613), Bohemian botanist and physician, lecturer and administrator at Charles University in Prague, author of Methodus Herbariae Libri Tres (1592). He was the first man to argue for the separation of botany from medicine, and for a universal classification of plants years before Linnaeus. He stated (in translation): ‘It is customary to connect medicine with botany, yet scientific treatment demands that we should consider each separately. For the fact is that in every art, theory must be disconnected and separated from practice, and the two must be dealt with singly and individually in their proper order before they are united. And for that reason, in order that botany (which is, as it were, a special branch of physics) may form a unit by itself before it can be brought into connection with other sciences, it must be divided and unyoked from medicine.’ Quotation from Herbals: Their Origin and Evolution (Agnes Arbe).