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Encephalartos horridus (Jacq.) Lehm.

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Common names: Eastern Cape blue cycad, blue cycad

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Encephalartos caffer (Thunb.) Lehm.

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Common names: Grahamstown cycad, Rhini cycad (Eng.); kafferkie (Afr.); uMphanga wase Rhini (Nguni)

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Encephalartos cycadifolius (Jacq.) Lehm.

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Common names: Bedford cycad

SA Tree No: 14.14

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Encephalartos aplanatus Vorster

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Common names: Swazi north-east forest cycad (Eng.); Umphanga wehlathi (Zulu)

SA Tree No: 14.10

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Encephalartos arenarius R.A.Dyer

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Common names: Alexandria cycad, Kwa Qaba cycad (Eng.); uMphanga wakwa Qaba (Nguni)

SA Tree No: 3.2

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Encephalartos altensteinii Lehm.

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Common names: Eastern Cape cycad, Eastern Cape giant cycad (Eng.), oos-kaapse broodboom (Afr.), umphanga, umguza, isundu (Xhosa)

SA Tree No: 3

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Dicerothamnus rhinocerotis (L.f.) Koekemoer

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Common names: rhinoceros bush, rhenoster bush (Eng.); renosterbos, rhenosterbos (Afr.)

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Empleurum unicapsulare (L.f.) Skeels

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Common names: false buchu, river buchu (Eng.); bergboegoe, wildeboegoe (Afr.)

SA Tree No: 259.5

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Elephantorrhiza elephantina (Burch.) Skeels

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Common names: eland's bean, eland's wattle, elephant's root (Eng.); baswortel, elandsboontjie, leerbossie, looiersboontjie, olifantswortel (Afr.); mupangara (Shona); mositsane (Sotho, Tswana); intolwane (Xhosa, Zulu).

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One of several racemes with open flowers. Flowers open in sequence towards the end of the inflorescence so that not all flowers are open at the same time. This strategy maximises the potential of effective pollination.

Scanning electron microscopy image of the dehisced anther of E. elephantina. Pollen grains are the rugby ball-shaped cells. The lump of cells at the top of the anther (lower left of image) is an anther gland.

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Ekebergia pterophylla (C.DC) Hofmeyr

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Common names: rock ash (Eng.); rotsessenhout (Afr.); maGwedla (Swahili)

SA Tree No: 299

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