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Gasteria nitida

Plant
Common names: Bathurst ox-tongue; Bathurst-beestong (Afr.)
Family: Asphodelaceae

... In 1817, Prince Salm-Dyck first named this species as Aloe nitida from live plants in his succulent collection. ...

15/12/2014 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Curio pondoensis

Plant
Common names: Pondo cliff daisy (Eng.); Pondo krans-aster (Afr.)
Family: Asteraceae

... to the Msikaba Formation sandstone. It was named in the Aloe magazine in 2008 (Van Jaarsveld & Van Wyk 2008) as ...

24/08/2015 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Sagittanthera mzimvubuensis

Plant
Common names: Mzimvubu-ruby (Eng.); kransrobyn (Afr.)
Family: Hyacinthaceae

... was named by the author as Drimia mzimvubuensis in the Aloe magazine (Van Jaarsveld & Van Wyk 2005). Sagittanthera ...

04/01/2016 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Astroloba cremnophila

Plant
Common names: cliff astroloba (Eng.); krans-astroloba (Afr.)
Family: Asphodelaceae

... is part of the Asphodelaceae and is closely related to Aloe , Haworthia , Gasteria , Tulista and Haworthiopsis . ...

28/03/2016 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Stoeberia giftbergensis

Plant
Common names: Gifberg tree-mesemb (Eng.); Gifberg-boomvygie (Afr.)
Family: Aizoaceae

... was raised to species status in 2015 by the author in the Aloe magazine. The genus Stoeberia was named by two German ...

15/08/2016 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Pelargonium vanderwaltii

Plant
Common names: Otjihipa pelargonium (Eng.); Otjihipa malva (Afr.)
Family: Geraniaceae

... by Braam van Wyk and the author in 2006, in the journal Aloe . Pelargonium vanderwaltii was named in honour of Adri ...

29/05/2017 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Aeollanthus haumannii

Plant
Common names: Otjihipa rock-sage (Eng.); Otjihipa-klipsalie (Afr.)
Family: Lamiaceae

... Aeollanthus haumannii was named in 2006 in the magazine Aloe by Braam van Wyk and the author. It commemorates Mr ...

03/09/2018 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Haworthiopsis coarctata

Plant
Common names: crowded haworthiopsis
Family: Asphodelaceae

... before 1700, these plants were included in the genus Aloe . The genus Haworthia was first used in 1809 by Henri ...

29/04/2019 | | Walter Sisulu NBG

Trachyandra falcata

Plant
Common names: Namaqua wild cabbage (Eng.); namakwakool, veldkool, bokkool (Afr.)
Family: Asphodelaceae

... are related to Bulbine , red-hot-pokers ( Kniphofia ) and Aloe . Trachyandra falcata (L.f.) Kunth Trachyandra falcata A ...

27/05/2019 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Haworthia cymbiformis var. ramosa

Plant
Common names: Keiskamma haworthia (Eng.); Keiskamma-dwergaalwyntjie (Afr.)
Family: Asphodelaceae

... cymbiformis was named by Adrian Haworth (1768–1833) as Aloe cymbiformis in Transactions of the Linnaean Society in ...

16/08/2021 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

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