Tag: Northern Provinces

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Gladiolus ecklonii

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Gladiolus ecklonii. See image source here.

#43 They called me Gladiolus ecklonii. I pay homage to the male botanist Christian Friedrich Ecklon. They first catalogued me in 1836.

Native to Cape Provinces, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Northern Provinces, and Swaziland.

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Moraea pallida

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Moraea pallida. See image source here.

#40 They called me Moraea pallida, also known as Homeria mossii. I pay homage to the male botanist Charles Edward Moss. They first catalogued me in 1998.

Native to Botswana, Cape Provinces, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Namibia, and Northern Provinces.

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Aristea ecklonii

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Aristea ecklonii. See image source here.

#34 They called me Aristea ecklonii, also known as Aristea lastii, and Aristea maitlandii. I pay homage to the male botanists Christian Friedrich Ecklon, Last (I couldn’t find his records), and Maitland (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1877.

Native to Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, KwaZulu-Natal, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.