Eastern Cape
Nodes
Jamesbrittenia microphylla
Thunbergia dregeana
Selago luxurians
Justicia campylostemon
Drosera aliciae
Isoglossa ciliata
Selago canescens
Blepharis capensis
Drosera cistiflora
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Taxonomy term
Psychotria capensis
(Black Bird-Berry){"type":"FeatureCollection","features":[]}
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
Ranunculus multifidus
(Buttercup){"type":"FeatureCollection","features":[]}
From the Latin multi = ‘many’ and fidus = ‘cleavage / divided'. The leaves are divided
Relhania pungens
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From the Latin pungens meaning ‘prickly' or 'pungent'
Rhigozum
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Gk. rhigos = cold, hence rigid, stiff; ozos = a branch; alluding to the rigid branches held stiffly out from the stem, a characteristic of this species.
Rhigozum obovatum
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From the Latin ob- = 'in opposite' and ovatus = ‘egg-shaped’; i.e. the narrow side is on the side of the stalk
Rhodohypoxis
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Gk. rhodon = rose; Hypoxis (q.v.); referring to its pink and white flowers and anthers borne at two levels.
Rhus
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Gk. rhous, from rhodos = red (the word can be traced back for centuries); referring to the fruits or autumn leaves of some species.
Rhus crenata
(Duinekraaibessie){"type":"FeatureCollection","features":[]}
From the Latin crenatus = ‘notched' or 'battlemented', like the wall of a castle
Rhus natalensis
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From the Natal region along the east-coast of South Africa
Rhynchosia
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Gk. rhynchos = beak, snout, horn; referring to the keel of the flowers.
Riocreuxia
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Alfred Riocreux (1820–1912), French artist and botanical illustrator. He was trained by his artist father, and showed precocious talent. His drawing and paintings as a 13-year-old were so good that the State Porcelain Factory at Sevres, where his father worked, considered conserving them. The botanist Adolphe Théodore Brongniart (1801–1876) saw his sketches and was probably responsible for bringing him to the Paris Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle. TG Hill, author of The Essentials of Illustration (London, 1915), has described Riocreux’s work on seaweeds for a work by Gustave Thuret as ‘the finest plates ever published in a botanical work’, while the distinguished Dutch botanist FA Stafleu, writing in 1966, commented: ‘Riocreux was one of the great botanical artists of all time’.
Riocreuxia torulosa
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Romulea macowanii
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Commemorating the botanist Peter MacOwan (1830-1909)
Romulea rosea
(Rooiknikkertjie){"type":"FeatureCollection","features":[]}
From the Latin roseus = ‘rose-coloured’ or 'red'