Wolseley Commonage
A lowland remant on the urban fringe comprising important fynbos and renosterveld vegetation. It is situated to the NE of the town of Wolseley in the Tulbagh Valley between Tulbagh to the North and Ceres to the SE.
Nodes
Leucadendron
Wachendorfia
Thesium
Haemanthus
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Senecio
Pelargonium
Othonna
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Taxonomy term
Lichtensteinia
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Lichtensteinia (q.v.).
Lobostemon
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Gk. lobos = lobe; stemon = thread, stamen; referring to the filaments being opposite the corolla lobes.
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.
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.
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.
Oedera
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For Georg Christian Edler von Oldenburg Oeder (1728–1791), German botanist, physician and economist. He studied medicine at the University of Göttingen under Albrecht von Haller who, in 1751, persuaded King Frederick V of Denmark to appoint Oeder as professor botanices regius (royal professor). He developed a botanical garden and in 1753 he became the founding author of Flora Danica, a massive work initially designed to cover all plant species in the crown lands of the Danish King, which was only completed 153 years later. Oeder served on many commissions and was involved in agrarian and social reforms. In 1771 Oeder lost his professorship as a result of a financial crisis in Denmark and was given a lesser post as a bailiff in Oldenberg, then under Danish rule. Two years before his death he was ennobled by Joseph 11, Holy Roman Emperor of the Hapsburg lands (present-day Austria).
Osteospermum
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Gk. osteon = bone; sperma = seed. The achenes are bone-hard.
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.
Oxalis
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From the Greek oxys = sharp, sour or acid and (h)als = salt. The plant is frequently consumed for its sour taste caused by the oxalic acid, particularly the flowering stalks of O. pes-caprae. In large quantities the oxalic acid inhibits digestion and in stock leads to the condition 'dikpens' or bloated belly.
Pelargonium
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Gk. pelargos = a stork; referring to the beak of the fruit which resembles a stork’s bill (cf Geranium, Erodium).
Romulea
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For the legendary Romulus, founder and first king of Rome.
Rumex
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The Latin name for culinary sorrel, as used by Pliny the Elder, probably derived from rumo = to suck or I suck; alluding to the practice among Romans of sucking the leaves to allay thirst.
Senecio
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La. senex = an old man. The white, hairy pappus of the seeds is reminiscent of an old man’s beard.