Piketberg
A montane island set in the lowlands of the Swartland, Piketberg has a number of endemics. The highest peak is Zebrakop at 1438m. The vegetation is threatened by traditional farming such as citrus, as well as rooibos and buchu farming. It is the home to Cape botanist Prof. Peter Linder who grew up in Piketberg and produced a herbarium for the Piketberg Mountains now based in a separate section in the Bolus Herbarium at the University of Cape Town. Peter Linder is a specialist in Restionaceae and has published much on origins of the flora of South Africa.
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Serruria aitonii
Protea nitida
Leucadendron salignum
Serruria pedunculata
Leucadendron glaberrimum
Leucadendron glaberrimum
Leucadendron glaberrimum
Leucadendron pubescens
Serruria pedunculata
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Taxonomy term
Leucadendron pubescens
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From the Latin pubescens meaning ‘downy’ with short soft hairs
Leucadendron rubrum
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From the Latin rubra = ‘red’
Leucadendron salignum
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Leucadendron spissifolium
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From the Latin ‘spissi’ / ‘spissus’ meaning ‘thick or dense’; and the Latin ‘folium’ / ‘folium’ meaning ‘leaf’.
Leucospermum
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Gk. leukos = white; sperma = seed. The tree has white seeds.
Leucospermum hypophyllocarpodendron
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From the Greek hypo = ‘under’, phyllos = ‘leaf’, konos = 'cone', karpos = 'fruit' and dendron = a 'tree' or 'bush'; i.e. 'the tree with coned fruit' and 'the bush with low-lying leaves and fruit'
Leucospermum hypophyllocarpodendron subsp. canaliculatum
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From the Latin canaliculatus = ‘channelled’; i.e. bearing a groove or furrow-shaped
Leucospermum tomentosum
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From the Latin tomentosus = 'densely woolly'
Leucospermum vestitum
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From the Latin vestitus = ‘clad’ or 'clothed'. This typically refers to having meany leaves down the length of the branches or to the leaves themselves being clothed in hair
Olea capensis
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From the Cape Province of South Africa, previously known as the Cape Colony. -ensis is a Latin adjectival suffix meaning “pertaining to or “originating in,” Thus these organisms were first discovered in the Cape. In the early days of exploration this epithet was frequently applied to anywhere in South Africa or even Southern Africa
Othonna
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Name derived from the Greek othone, a linen cloth or napkin, in allusion to the downy covering of some of the earlier known species. Doria Less. is not regarded as separable.