Zaluzianskya violacea
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
09/07/2013 - 1:27pm
Collection:
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.
Is private:
Public
Nodes
Oxalis stenopetala
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
09/07/2013 - 4:16pm
Collection:
Wiborgia monoptera
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
09/07/2013 - 4:35pm
Collection:
Oxalis grammophylla
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
09/07/2013 - 4:30pm
Collection:
Athanasia minuta
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
09/07/2013 - 4:25pm
Collection:
Oxalis grammophylla
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
09/07/2013 - 4:21pm
Collection:
Limonium dregeanum
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
09/07/2013 - 1:38pm
Collection:
Lapeirousia plicata
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
09/07/2013 - 1:27pm
Collection:
Leipoldtia rosea
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
09/07/2013 - 12:19pm
Collection:
Antimima
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
31/08/2012 - 11:25am
Collection:
Pages
Taxonomy term
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Androcymbium
NE
20
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Short etymology:
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’.
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Androcymbium volutare
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Short etymology:
Description:
Acaulescent, cormous geophyte. Leaves linear, coiled at tips. Flowers concealed in large, pale green bracts, tepals auriculate below. Aug.--Sept. Clay soils, KM (W Karoo to Little Karoo).G
Antimima
NE
2
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Short etymology:
Gk. antimimos = imitating. The first species looked like Argyroderma.
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Arctotheca
NE
1
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Short etymology:
Gk. arktos = a bear; theke = a case, capsule; referring to rough densely woolly fruit.
S
Athanasia minuta
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Short etymology:
From the Latin minutus = ‘minute’ / 'very small'
S
Bulbine latifolia
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Short etymology:
From the Latin lati / latus meaning ‘wide’; and folius meaning ‘leaf’; i.e. the plant is broad-leafed
Description:
Geophyte, 30--60 cm, rootstock a thick rhizome with thin wiry roots. Leaves in a rosette, broadly lanceolate. Flowers in a dense, elongate raceme, yellow. Capsules globose, erect. Mainly Aug.--Nov. Rocky slopes, SE (Uniondale to Mpumalanga).S
Bulbinella nutans
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Short etymology:
From the Latin ‘nutans’ / ‘nutans’ meaning ‘nodding’
Description:
Rhizomatous geophyte to 1 m. Leaves linear, channelled. Flowers in a conical raceme, yellow or cream. July--Oct. Damp peaty soils, NW, SW, LB (Loeriesfontein and W Karoo to Swellendam).G
Colchicum
NE
20
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Short etymology:
Gk. From Colchis, an ancient region of Georgia, near the north-eastern Black Sea, in the Caucasus.
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Crassula
NE
1
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Short etymology:
La. crassus = thick; -ula = diminutive; referring to the fleshy succulent leaves.
S
Crassula columnaris
(Khakibutton)
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Short etymology:
From the Latin columna = a "pillar", referring to the columnar appearance
Description:
Perennial or biennial to 10 cm, occ. branched at base. Leaves opposite, depressed-ovate, closely imbricate, recurved-ciliate, margins occ. membranous. Flowers in a terminal head, tubular, white to yellow, petals 7--13 mm long. May--Aug. Quartzite gravel and rocky pavement, NW, KM (S Namibia and Karoo to Little Karoo).
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Dimorphotheca nudicaulis
(Witmargriet)2
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Short etymology:
From the Latin nudus = 'naked' and caulis = 'stem'
Description:
Like D. tragus but leaves mostly crowded basally. Flower heads white with purple to copper reverse. Ray achenes vestigial. Aug.--Oct. Sandstone slopes, NW, SW, AP, KM, LB, SE (Bokkeveld Escarpment to George).[Possibly not distinct from D. tragus]G
Erica
NE
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Short etymology:
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).
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Eriocephalus africanus
(Wild Rosemary)2
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Short etymology:
From the Latin africanus = ‘relating to Africa’
Description:
Silvery silky, twiggy shrub to 1 m. Leaves linear or trifid, in tufts. Flower heads radiate, in small umbellate clusters at the branch tips, rays conspicuous, white with purplish disc. Mainly Jan.--June. Mostly clay or granite hill slopes, NW, SW, AP, LB, SE (S Namaqualand to Port Elizabeth and E Cape).S
Euphorbia mauritanica
(Beesmelkbos)
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Short etymology:
From the Latin Mauritanica / Mauritania the country in northwest Africa which is now Algeria and Morocco, and from where the 'moors' came from
Description:
Much-branched shrub to 2 m; stems terete, 3--6 mm diam., bright green. Leaves sessile, 8--15 Pages
