Tag: Cape Provinces

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Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum

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Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum. See image source here.

#683 They called me Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum, also known as Cryophytum rogersii. I pay homage to the male botanist Richard Sanders Rogers. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Algeria, Baleares, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Egypt, France, Greece, Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kriti, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Mauritania, Morocco, Namibia, Oman, Palestine, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Selvagens, Sicilia, Sinai, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, Western Sahara, and Yugoslavia.

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Plectranthus verticillatus

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Plectranthus verticillatus. See image source here.

#644 They called me Plectranthus verticillatus, also known as Plectranthus thunbergii. I pay homage to the male botanist Carl Peter Thunberg. They first catalogued me in 1917.

Native to Cape Provinces, KwaZulu-Natal, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, and Swaziland.

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Rumohra adiantiformis

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Rumohra adiantiformis. See image source here.

#641 They called me Rumohra adiantiformis, also known as Aspidium cunninghamii, Polypodium thomassetii, Dryopteris thomassetii, and Rumohra capuronii. I pay homage to the male botanists Thomasset (I couldn’t find his records), René Paul Raymond Capuron, and Gordon Herriott (Heriot) Cunningham, or Allan Cunningham. They first catalogued me in 1934.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina South, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cape Provinces, Central American Pac, Chatham Is., Chile Central, Chile South, Colombia, Comoros, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Falkland Is., Florida, Galápagos, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Mauritius, New Guinea, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Northern Provinces, Peru, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Réunion, Seychelles, Tasmania, Tristan da Cunha, Uruguay, Venezuela, Victoria, and Zimbabwe.