Hantams Plateau
The escarpment area comprising the Bokkeveld series geological formations that have led to nutrient rich dolorites that characterise the region. It is renowned for its geophytic (bulb) diversity of which the Niewoudtville area is the best known and home to one of SANBI's nature reserves. It includes Calvinia and the surrounds and the Hantamsberg above Calvinia.
Nodes
Oxalis stenopetala
Wiborgia monoptera
Oxalis grammophylla
Athanasia minuta
Oxalis grammophylla
Limonium dregeanum
Lapeirousia plicata
Leipoldtia rosea

Antimima
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Taxonomy term
Androcymbium
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Gk. andro- = male (in botanical language, stamen); kymbium = cup or saucer (La. cymba). The petal limbs enfold the stamens. Common names ‘men-in-a-boat’, ‘cup-and-saucer’.
Androcymbium volutare
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Antimima
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Gk. antimimos = imitating. The first species looked like Argyroderma.
Arctotheca
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Gk. arktos = a bear; theke = a case, capsule; referring to rough densely woolly fruit.
Athanasia minuta
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From the Latin minutus = ‘minute’ / 'very small'
Bulbine latifolia
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From the Latin lati / latus meaning ‘wide’; and folius meaning ‘leaf’; i.e. the plant is broad-leafed
Bulbinella nutans
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From the Latin ‘nutans’ / ‘nutans’ meaning ‘nodding’
Colchicum
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Gk. From Colchis, an ancient region of Georgia, near the north-eastern Black Sea, in the Caucasus.
Crassula
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La. crassus = thick; -ula = diminutive; referring to the fleshy succulent leaves.
Crassula columnaris
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From the Latin columna = a "pillar", referring to the columnar appearance
Dimorphotheca nudicaulis
(Witmargriet){"type":"FeatureCollection","features":[]}
From the Latin nudus = 'naked' and caulis = 'stem'
Erica
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Gk. ereike = to break. The name used for a heath by Theophrastus (372–287 BCE) and Pliny the Elder. The stems are brittle and break easily (Lindsay); or possibly but less likely because of the ability of the plant to break up bladder stones (Paxton’s Botanical Dictionary).
Eriocephalus africanus
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From the Latin africanus = ‘relating to Africa’
Euphorbia mauritanica
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From the Latin Mauritanica / Mauritania the country in northwest Africa which is now Algeria and Morocco, and from where the 'moors' came from
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