Western Cape
Nodes
Gladiolus scullyi
Gladiolus watermeyeri
Gladiolus splendens
Gladiolus venustus
Gladiolus venustus
Gladiolus venustus
Gladiolus subcaeruleus
Gladiolus permeabilis
Gladiolus vandermerwei
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Taxonomy term
Lachenalia
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For Werner de Lachenal (1736–1800), Swiss professor of botany and anatomy at the University of Basel from 1776, eminent for his knowledge of European plants. He obtained his PhD in 1763. He was a pupil of Haller, who was one of his main correspondents, providing him with details of flora and their location around Basel, the Jura mountains, Alsat and Bruntrutain. He was a friend of Linnaeus. He authored several monographs in Acta Helvetica. While at the university he substantially improved its botanical garden, the oldest in Switzerland, that had fallen into disrepair. He continually strived to obtain funds to reconstruct and develop the garden and to pay for its gardener. He opened the garden to the public to cover expenditures.
Lachnaea
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Gk. lachne = woolly hair; alluding to the downy calyx.
Lebeckia
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Named by Thunberg after an obscure botanist of whom we can find no trace.
Leucadendron
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Gk. leukos = white; dendron = tree; referring to commonly called ‘witteboom’ or ‘silver tree’.
Lichtensteinia
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Lichtensteinia (q.v.).
Liparia
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Gk. liparos = oily, shiny; referring to the shiny, hairless leaves of the genus.
Lobostemon
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Gk. lobos = lobe; stemon = thread, stamen; referring to the filaments being opposite the corolla lobes.
Lonicera
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For Adam Lonitzer (Lonicer, Lonicerus) (1528–1586), German professor of mathematics at Nuremberg, who later obtained a medical degree from the university in Mainz and became city physician in Frankfurt. Lonitzer married Magdalena Egenolph, daughter of a Frankfurt printer who specialised in ‘herbals’ – books containing the names and descriptions of plants extolling their medicinal, culinary, aromatic and other virtues. When his father-in-law died (1533), Lonitzer inherited a substantial share of the business and ran it with his brothers-in-law. His interest in natural history grew and in 1551 he published his most famous work, Natvralis Historia, in Latin and in 1557 in German, Kreuterbüch, which went through several subsequent editions, being published as late as 1783.
Moraea
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Linnaeus married Sara Elisabeth Moraea; her father was Dr. Johan Moraeus, the town physician of Falun. The name "Morea" was originally given by Philip Miller after "Robert More of Shropshire", but was taken over by Linnaeus and changed to Moraea.
Muraltia
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After John M. von Muralt, Swiss botanist and author; flourished around 1576.
Myrtus communis
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From the Latin communis = ‘common’
Nephrolepis exaltata
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Othonna
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Name derived from the Greek othone, a linen cloth or napkin, in allusion to the downy covering of some of the earlier known species. Doria Less. is not regarded as separable.
Paranomus
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From the Greek para, beyond, contrary to; nomos, custom, law; referring to the leaves which carry dichotomously branched veins, are not dorsiventral and in many species are of two entirely different shapes in the adult bush.