Langeberg - southern arm
The major east-west trending mountain range of the Southern Cape. It extends from Montagu in the west petering out towards the east near Mossel Bay. It forms the boundary between the Agulhas Plain and the Overberg in the south, and the Klein Karoo in the north. Major conservation areas include Marloth Nature Reserve and Grootvadersbosch Nature Reserve.
Four major passes cross the Langeberg: Cogmanskloof Pass lies in the west between Montagu and Ashton; Tradouws Pass links Barrydale with Swellendam; Garcias Pass links Ladismith and Riversdale; and Cloetes Pass links Ladismith with Mossel Bay.
Floristically it is extremely rich with many endemics, particularly it is a hotspot for the Peneaceae. A PhD study was undertaken at the University of Cape Town by botanist David McDonald, who uncovered many rare and new species and wrote a thesis entitled 'Phytogeography, endemism and diversity of the fynbos of the southern Langeberg'.
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Hippia trilobata
Erica polifolia
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Cliffortia
Pelargonium hispidum
Watsonia fourcadei
Hippia frutescens
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Taxonomy term
Langebergia
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Presumably after the Langeberg mountains in the Western Cape.
Leucadendron
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Gk. leukos = white; dendron = tree; referring to commonly called ‘witteboom’ or ‘silver tree’.
Leucospermum
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Gk. leukos = white; sperma = seed. The tree has white seeds.
Liparia splendens
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From the Latin splendere = ‘splendid’, 'gleaming', 'shiny', 'gleaming', glittering', 'radiant' or 'resplendent'
Lobelia
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For Mathias de L’Obel (Lobel, Lobelius) (1538–1616), Flemish botanist, traveller, plant collector. He studied medicine in Leuven and Montpellier and practised medicine from 1571–1581 in Antwerp and Delft, where he was physician to William, Prince of Orange. In 1584 he left the Netherlands for England to escape the civil war and never returned. He became physician to King James I of England and also the king’s botanist. His major work, written in collaboration with Pierre Pena, was Stirpium Adversaria Nova (1571), which describes some 1 500 species in the vicinity of Montpellier, also of Tyrol, Switzerland and the Netherlands. A second volume, Plantarum Historia Stirpium, was published in 1576 with more than 2 000 illustrations, and a further work, Icones Stirpium, seu, Plantarum Tam Exoticarum in 1591.
Lobelia
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For Mathias de L’Obel (Lobel, Lobelius) (1538–1616), Flemish botanist, traveller, plant collector. He studied medicine in Leuven and Montpellier and practised medicine from 1571–1581 in Antwerp and Delft, where he was physician to William, Prince of Orange. In 1584 he left the Netherlands for England to escape the civil war and never returned. He became physician to King James I of England and also the king’s botanist. His major work, written in collaboration with Pierre Pena, was Stirpium Adversaria Nova (1571), which describes some 1 500 species in the vicinity of Montpellier, also of Tyrol, Switzerland and the Netherlands. A second volume, Plantarum Historia Stirpium, was published in 1576 with more than 2 000 illustrations, and a further work, Icones Stirpium, seu, Plantarum Tam Exoticarum in 1591.
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.
Muiria
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Named after Scotsman Dr John Muir, (1874-1947), physician, naturalist and cultural historian. Came to the Cape in 1826 and in 1923 he retired and concentrated on the study of shells. He criss-crossed the Riversdale region in the course of his medical practice, collecting all the time. He published 'The Flora of Riversdale' which he published as Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa no 13, (1929). In 1929 he also presented his collection of drift-seeds he had found along the beach and was awarded a DSc from Edinburgh University.
Notobubon gummiferum
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From the Greek kommi = "gum" and -phoros = "bearing" referring the gum or latex in the plant
Otholobium
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From the Greek otheo, to burst forth; lobos. lobe or pod. The fruit of . caff rum seems to be "pushing out of the calyx" (author).
Phylica purpurea
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From the Latin purpureus = 'purple'
Protea
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Gk. After Proteus, a mythological sea-god, who could change his form at will, taking new shapes. Seemingly Linnaeus was so over-awed by the variety of plants sent to him from the Cape that he named the genus Protea. The authors could not confirm this.
Psoralea
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Gk. psoraleos = scabby. The plants are covered with rough warty-looking glandular dots.