West Coast of Northern Cape
This is the low-lying coastal strip of deep sands that lies along the West Coast of South Africa. However it requires distinction from the more southern West Coast north of Cape Town. We define the southern extent of the region as occurring from where the Olifants River enters the sea at Papendorp west of Vredendal, to the mouth of the Orange River at Alexander Bay on the SA/Namibian border. Technically the Northern Cape is further north of Papendorp, but there is no natural barrier to demarcate this region. It is more arid than the southern West Coast and has a significant number of endemics that do not occur in the southern West Coast.
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Albuca canadensis
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Taxonomy term
Chrysanthemoides
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Chrysanthemum (q.v.); Gk. -oides = resembling.
Conophytum
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Gk. konos = cone; phytum = plant; alluding to the inverted cone shape of the plant.
Conophytum
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Gk. konos = cone; phytum = plant; alluding to the inverted cone shape of the plant.
Conophytum
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Gk. konos = cone; phytum = plant; alluding to the inverted cone shape of the plant.
Crassula
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La. crassus = thick; -ula = diminutive; referring to the fleshy succulent leaves.
Crassula
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La. crassus = thick; -ula = diminutive; referring to the fleshy succulent leaves.
CUCURBITACEAE
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Cucurbita, Latin name for a gourd.
Didelta carnosa
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from the Latin carnosus = 'fleshy'
Euphorbia
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Gk. eu- = well; phorbe = pasture or fodder; probably after Euphorbus, Greek physician to Juba II, King of Mauretania. Juba was educated in Rome and married the daughter of Antony and Cleopatra. He was apparently interested in botany and had written about an African cactus-like plant from the slopes of Mount Atlas, which he had found or knew about, which was used as a powerful laxative. That plant may have been Euphorbia resinifera, and like all Euphorbias had a latexy exudate (milky emulsion from certain plants). Euphorbus had a brother named Antonius Musa who was the physician to Augustus Caesar in Rome. When Juba heard that Caesar had honoured his physician with a statue, he decided to honour his own physician by naming the plant he had written about after him.
Euphorbia
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Gk. eu- = well; phorbe = pasture or fodder; probably after Euphorbus, Greek physician to Juba II, King of Mauretania. Juba was educated in Rome and married the daughter of Antony and Cleopatra. He was apparently interested in botany and had written about an African cactus-like plant from the slopes of Mount Atlas, which he had found or knew about, which was used as a powerful laxative. That plant may have been Euphorbia resinifera, and like all Euphorbias had a latexy exudate (milky emulsion from certain plants). Euphorbus had a brother named Antonius Musa who was the physician to Augustus Caesar in Rome. When Juba heard that Caesar had honoured his physician with a statue, he decided to honour his own physician by naming the plant he had written about after him.
Euphorbia
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Gk. eu- = well; phorbe = pasture or fodder; probably after Euphorbus, Greek physician to Juba II, King of Mauretania. Juba was educated in Rome and married the daughter of Antony and Cleopatra. He was apparently interested in botany and had written about an African cactus-like plant from the slopes of Mount Atlas, which he had found or knew about, which was used as a powerful laxative. That plant may have been Euphorbia resinifera, and like all Euphorbias had a latexy exudate (milky emulsion from certain plants). Euphorbus had a brother named Antonius Musa who was the physician to Augustus Caesar in Rome. When Juba heard that Caesar had honoured his physician with a statue, he decided to honour his own physician by naming the plant he had written about after him.
FABACEAE
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Faba, Latin, a bean.
Fenestraria
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La. fenestra = window; -aria = pertaining to; referring to the window-like leaf apices (leaf ends).
Fenestraria
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La. fenestra = window; -aria = pertaining to; referring to the window-like leaf apices (leaf ends).
Gethyllis
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Possibly Gk. getheo = I rejoice; ullus = diminutive, but most sources say from gethyon = a bulb, onion or species of leek. The bulbs of this genus are somewhat similar to those of the leek.