Southern Africa
Nodes
Utricularia benjaminiana
Watsonia occulta
Vahlia capensis
Wolffia arrhiza
Wahlenbergia undulata
Utricularia bisquamata
Strelitzia reginae
Triglochin striata
Stiburus alopecuroides
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Taxonomy term
Eremitalpa granti granti
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Erica albens
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From the Latin albens meaning ‘turning white’ or 'whitened'
Erica pyxidiflora
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From the Latin pyxidium = a 'fruit or capsule'; referring to the resemblance of the inflorescence to the furit of members of the family Myrtaceae
Eriocaulon sonderianum
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For Otto Wilhelm Sonder (1812–1881), German botanist and pharmacist, practising in Hamburg. He accumulated an enormous private herbarium in excess of 250 000 specimens from some of the leading botanists and collectors of his day.
Eriospermum cooperi
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Named in honour of English botanist Thomas Cooper (1815-1913). He collected many plants in the Drakensberg mountains
Eucomis bicolor
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From the Latin bi meaning ‘two’; and the Latin color meaning ‘colour’. This typically refers to the flower having two colours
Eucomis pallidiflora
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From the Latin pallidus meaning 'pale' and florus meaning 'flower'
Eulophia aculeata subsp. huttonii
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Named after Harry Hutton, amateur botanist in the mid-nineteenth century
Eulophia bainesii
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Likely named after the English painter and explorer (John) Thomas Baines (1830-1875) who co-discovered Welwitschia mirabilis; or Thomas Charles John Baines (1830-1893), a South African road engineer who built over 900km of roads including many of the famous passes in South Africa; or less-likely English botanist Henry Baines (1793-1878) who published the Flora of Yorkshire (1840).
Eulophia parvilabris
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From the Latin parva = 'small', and labrum = 'a lip'.
Eulophia zeyheriana
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Named in honour of the renowned plant collector Carl (Karl) Ludwig Philipp Zeyher (1799-1858). One of South Africa's foremost botanical collectors who is synonymous with his collecting partner Ecklon. He began collecting in the Cape in 1822, undertook a major expedition to Kaffraria (the Eastern Cape) 1831-1832 and to the Transvaal from 1840-1842.
Euryops oligoglossus subsp. racemosus
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From the Latin racemosus = ‘clustered like a grape’