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'.
Nodes
Erica ardens
Ursinia scariosa
Lichtensteinia latifolia
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Brunia callunoides
Stylapterus ericifolius
Brunia schlechteri
Centella fourcadei
Cliffortia lanceolata
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Taxonomy term
Psoralea usitata
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Relhania
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For Reverend Richard Relhan (1754–1823), Irish botanist, bryologist, lichenologist and plant collector. He was born in Dublin, educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained an MA degree (1779), and became chaplin of Kings College, Cambridge. While there, he studied and collected plants in the neighbourhood, publishing a book Flora Cantabrigiensis (1785). He became a Fellow of the Royal Society (1787) and one of the founders of the Linnaean Society (1787). Later, he became rector in Lincolnshire and devoted himself to a scholarly study of the works of Tacitus.
Selaginella
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Gk. Salaginella is the name given by Pliny the Elder for an ancient plant name that was formerly called Selago. The name Salaginella means ‘little Selago’, but it is only distantly related to Selago (q.v.). Selaginella is an evergreen, low-growing, flowerless, moss-like plant, and relates to Lycopodium slago and Huperzia selago. In contrast, the genus Selago belongs to a family of flowering plants called Scrophulariaceae.
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.
Ursinia
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Named in honour of Johann Ursinus of Regensburg, the author of Arboretum Biblicum. Sphenogyne R.Br. is not considered separable.
Ursinia
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Named in honour of Johann Ursinus of Regensburg, the author of Arboretum Biblicum. Sphenogyne R.Br. is not considered separable.
Ursinia
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Named in honour of Johann Ursinus of Regensburg, the author of Arboretum Biblicum. Sphenogyne R.Br. is not considered separable.
Ursinia scariosa
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Watsonia
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For William Watson (1715–1787), English physician, apothecary, botanist and naturalist. He introduced the work of Linnaeus and his botanical classification system to Britain. He was the first scientist to observe the flash of light from the discharge of a Leyden jar and to show that electricity could pass through a vacuum and that it had a positive and negative charge; he coined the word ‘circuit’. His articles, entitled Experiments on the Nature of Electricity, appeared from 1745 onward in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, of which he became a member (1741) and vice president (1772). Both he and Benjamin Franklin discovered some of the same characteristics of electricity at the same time, but independently. The two men became friends.
Zyrphelis
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Possible misspelling of Zephyr, the mythological god of the west wind and lover of Flora.
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