Hottentots Holland to Hermanus
This is the approximate region dealt with by the "Hottentots Holland to Hermanus" field guide by Lee Burman.
Nodes
Polygala myrtifolia
Aspalathus excelsa
Tritoniopsis antholyza
Disa glandulosa
Gladiolus gracilis
Mystropetalon thomii
Satyrium rhynchanthum
Erica irbyana
Lapeirousia micrantha
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Taxonomy term
Clutia polygonoides
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From the Latin -oides = 'a resemblance' to the genus Polygonum (Polygonaceae)
Coleonema album
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From Latin albus meaning 'white'
Colpoon
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Gk. kolpos = breast or uterus; La. colpus = groove. Possibly because stamens pass through grooves in the ovary. ‘Sinubus quatuor excavates quos Stamina permeant’ (Peter Jonas Bergius).
Corymbium congestum
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From the Latin congestus = 'congested' or 'crowded together'
Corymbium cymosum
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From the Latin cymosus = 'cymose' - an arrangement of flowers in a cyme which is an inflorescence in which the primary axis bears a single terminal flower which develops first, the inflorescence being continued by secondary, tertiary, and other axes
Crassula coccinea
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From the Latin coccineus = ‘scarlet’
Cussonia thyrsiflora
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Thyrsiflora is derived from the Ancient Greek thyrsos (θύρσος; meaning a 'contracted panicle, wreath, or thyrsos') and the Latin floris (gen. 'flower'), and so, thyrsiflora means approximately 'with flowers arranged in the shape of a contracted panicle or thyrsos staff'.
Cyclopia genistoides
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Resembling the genus Genista
Cyperus thunbergii
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For Carl Pehr (Peter) Thunberg (1743–1828), Swedish botanist, physician, student of Linnaeus, professor of botany and medicine at Uppsala University (1784–1828) who visited the Cape from 1772–1775 to study the Cape’s flora.
Cyrtanthus leucanthus
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From Greek leucos = 'white' and anthos = 'flower'; A white flower.
Cyrtanthus ventricosus
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From the Latin ventricosus = 'swollen' or 'inflated'
Delosperma guthriei
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For Francis Guthrie (1831–1899), English lawyer, mathematician and botanist. He studied at London University, getting a BA degree (1850) and an LLB (1852) before coming to South Africa in 1861 to teach mathematics at Graaff-Reinet College. His extensive collections of flora from the Cape Peninsula are honoured by the Guthrie Herbarium within the Bolus Herbarium at UCT.
Dilatris pillansii
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Named after Capetonian botanist Neville Stuart Pillans (1884-1964). He joined the staff at Bolus herbarium in 1918 and worked there till his retirement. He had a penchance for succulents and did Monographs of the Restionaceae, Bruniaceae, Phylica, Agathosma and Metalasia. He also did some work on the genus Hermannia, but gave up two years before his death.
Dilatris viscosa
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From the Latin viscosus = ‘sticky’