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Leucospermum

Index Leucospermum

Leucospermum is a genus of evergreen upright, sometimes creeping shrubs that is assigned to the Proteaceae, with currently forty-eight known species. [1]

139 relations: Achene, Acuminate, Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, Anoplolepis, Argentine ant, Auctorum, Binomial nomenclature, Cape Floristic Region, Cape sugarbird, Cape weaver, Carl Linnaeus, Carl Meissner, Carl Peter Thunberg, Conserved name, Dehiscence (botany), Diastella, Edwin Percy Phillips, Elaiosome, Evergreen, Fynbos, George Claridge Druce, Grappling hook, Great Escarpment, Southern Africa, Gynoecium, Hairy-footed gerbil, Henry Charles Andrews, Herman Boerhaave, Hermanus, Homonym, Hortus Botanicus Leiden, James Petiver, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Johann Friedrich Klotzsch, John Patrick Rourke, John Ray, Joseph Knight (horticulturist), Knight, Leonard Plukenet, Leucadendron, Leucadendron salignum, Leucospermum bolusii, Leucospermum calligerum, Leucospermum catherinae, Leucospermum conocarpodendron, Leucospermum cordatum, Leucospermum cordifolium, Leucospermum cuneiforme, Leucospermum erubescens, Leucospermum formosum, Leucospermum gerrardii, ..., Leucospermum glabrum, Leucospermum grandiflorum, Leucospermum gueinzii, Leucospermum hamatum, Leucospermum harpagonatum, Leucospermum heterophyllum, Leucospermum hypophyllocarpodendron, Leucospermum innovans, Leucospermum lineare, Leucospermum muirii, Leucospermum oleifolium, Leucospermum parile, Leucospermum patersonii, Leucospermum pluridens, Leucospermum praecox, Leucospermum praemorsum, Leucospermum prostratum, Leucospermum reflexum, Leucospermum saxosum, Leucospermum tomentosum, Leucospermum tottum, Leucospermum truncatulum, Leucospermum truncatum, Leucospermum vestitum, Locule, Malachite sunbird, Michel Adanson, Mimetes, Myrmecochory, Namaqualand, Nectar, Nicolaas Laurens Burman, Nut (fruit), On the cultivation of the plants belonging to the natural order of Proteeae, On the natural order of plants called Proteaceae, Orange-breasted sunbird, Orothamnus, Otto Kuntze, Otto Stapf, Ovary (botany), Ovule, Paranomus, Paul Hermann (botanist), Perianth, Peter Jonas Bergius, Petiole (botany), Pheromone, Ploidy, Pollen, Pollen-presenter, Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis, Prostrate shrub, Protea, Proteaceae, Receptacle (botany), Red-winged starling, Richard Anthony Salisbury, Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773), Rootstock, Section (botany), Self-incompatibility, Senescence, Serruria, Shrub, Sister group, Soil seed bank, Sorocephalus, Southern double-collared sunbird, Spatalla, Species Plantarum, Spencer Le Marchant Moore, Stilbaai, Stipule, Striped field mouse, Table Mountain, Table Mountain Sandstone, Telopea (journal), Tepal, The Paradisus Londinensis, Tribe (biology), Trichostetha capensis, Trichostetha fascicularis, Validly published name, Van Dyks Bay, Vexatorella, Wildfire, William Hooker (botanical illustrator), Witsand, Witteberg. Expand index (89 more) »

Achene

An achene (Greek ἀ, a, privative + χαίνειν, chainein, to gape; also sometimes called akene and occasionally achenium or achenocarp) is a type of simple dry fruit produced by many species of flowering plants.

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Acuminate

Tapering to a long point, such as in the shape of leaves or other botanical features such as the stamen filaments.

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Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle

Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyrame de Candolle (28 October 18064 April 1893) was a French-Swiss botanist, the son of the Swiss botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle.

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Anoplolepis

Anoplolepis (also known as the "common pugnacious ant") is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.

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Argentine ant

The Argentine ant (Linepithema humile), formerly Iridomyrmex humilis, is an ant native to northern Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and southern Brazil.

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Auctorum

Auctorum (abbreviated auct. or auctt.), in botany and zoology is a term used to indicate that a name is used in the sense of a number of subsequent authors and not in its (different) sense as established by the original author.

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Binomial nomenclature

Binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system") also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages.

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Cape Floristic Region

The Cape Floristic Region is a floristic region located near the southern tip of South Africa.

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Cape sugarbird

The Cape sugarbird (Promerops cafer) is one of the six bird species endemic to the Fynbos biome of the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa.

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Cape weaver

The Cape weaver (Ploceus capensis) is a resident breeding weaver of Southern Africa.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von LinnéBlunt (2004), p. 171.

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Carl Meissner

Carl Daniel Friedrich Meissner (1 November 1800 – 2 May 1874) was a Swiss botanist.

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Carl Peter Thunberg

Carl Peter Thunberg, also known as Karl Peter von Thunberg, Carl Pehr Thunberg, or Carl Per Thunberg (11 November 1743 – 8 August 1828), was a Swedish naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.

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Conserved name

A conserved name or nomen conservandum (plural nomina conservanda, abbreviated as nom. cons.) is a scientific name that has specific nomenclatural protection.

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Dehiscence (botany)

Dehiscence is the splitting along a built-in line of weakness in a plant structure in order to release its contents, and is common among fruits, anthers and sporangia.

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Diastella

Diastella is a genus containing seven species of flowering plants, commonly known as “silkypuffs”, in the protea family.

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Edwin Percy Phillips

Edwin Percy Phillips (18 February 1884 in Sea Point, Cape Town – 12 April 1967 in Cape Town), was a South African botanist and taxonomist, noted for his monumental work The Genera of South African Flowering Plants first published in 1926.

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Elaiosome

Elaiosomes (Greek élaion "oil" and sóma "body") are fleshy structures that are attached to the seeds of many plant species.

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Evergreen

In botany, an evergreen is a plant that has leaves throughout the year, always green.

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Fynbos

Fynbos (meaning fine-leaved plants) is a small belt of natural shrubland or heathland vegetation located in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa.

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George Claridge Druce

George Claridge Druce, MA, LLD, JP, FRS, FLS (23 May 1850 – 29 February 1932) was an English botanist and a Mayor of Oxford.

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Grappling hook

A grappling hook or grapnel is a device with multiple hooks (known as claws or flukes), attached to a rope; it is thrown, dropped, sunk, projected, or fastened directly by hand to where at least one hook may catch and hold.

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Great Escarpment, Southern Africa

The Great Escarpment is a major geological formation in Africa that consists of steep slopes from the high central Southern African plateauAtlas of Southern Africa.

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Gynoecium

Gynoecium (from Ancient Greek γυνή, gyne, meaning woman, and οἶκος, oikos, meaning house) is most commonly used as a collective term for the parts of a flower that produce ovules and ultimately develop into the fruit and seeds.

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Hairy-footed gerbil

The hairy-footed gerbil (Gerbillurus paeba) is a species of gerbil found in Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.

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Henry Charles Andrews

Henry Charles Andrews (fl. 1794 – 1830), was an English botanist, botanical artist and engraver.

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Herman Boerhaave

Herman Boerhaave (31 December 1668 – 23 September 1738)Underwood, E. Ashworth.

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Hermanus

(originally called Hermanuspietersfontein, but shortened in 1902 as the name was too long for the postal service at the official), is a town on the southern coast of the Western Cape province of South Africa.

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Homonym

In linguistics, homonyms, broadly defined, are words which sound alike or are spelled alike, but have different meanings.

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Hortus Botanicus Leiden

The Hortus botanicus of Leiden is the oldest botanical garden of the Netherlands, and one of the oldest in the world.

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James Petiver

James Petiver (c. 1665 – c. 2 April 1718) was a London apothecary, a fellow of the Royal Society as well as London's informal Temple Coffee House Botany Club, famous for his specimen collections in which he traded and study of botany and entomology.

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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist.

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Johann Friedrich Klotzsch

Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (9 June 1805, Wittenberg – 5 November 1860) was a German pharmacist and botanist.

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John Patrick Rourke

John Rourke (born 26 March 1942, Cape Town) is a South African botanist, who worked at the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden and who became curator of the Compton Herbarium.

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John Ray

John Ray FRS (29 November 1627 – 17 January 1705) was an English naturalist widely regarded as one of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists.

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Joseph Knight (horticulturist)

Joseph Knight (7 October 1778 – 20 July 1855), gardener to George Hibbert, was one of the first people in England to successfully propagate Proteaceae.

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Knight

A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a monarch, bishop or other political leader for service to the monarch or a Christian Church, especially in a military capacity.

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Leonard Plukenet

Leonard Plukenet (1641–1706) was an English botanist, Royal Professor of Botany and gardener to Queen Mary.

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Leucadendron

Leucadendron is a genus of about 80 species of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae, endemic to South Africa, where they are a prominent part of the fynbos ecoregion and vegetation type.

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Leucadendron salignum

Leucadendron salignum is a species of plant in the family Proteaceae native to South Africa.

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Leucospermum bolusii

Leucospermum bolusii is a shrub native to South Africa.

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Leucospermum calligerum

Leucospermum calligerum is a softly hairy shrub, with wand-like branches, entire ovate leaves that have a bony tip of about 25 × 6 mm (1 × ¼ in), and globular heads of 2–3½ cm (0.8–1.4 in) in diameter, with two to six together near the tip of the branches and flowering in turn, that consist of 4-merous flowers, initially cream-colored, later pink, with the petals curled and the styles 2–2½ cm (0.8–1.0 in) long, sticking out like pins from a cushion.

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Leucospermum catherinae

Leucospermum catherinae is a large evergreen, upright shrub of up to 4 m (13 ft) high that is assigned to the Proteaceae family.

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Leucospermum conocarpodendron

Leucospermum conocarpodendron, is the largest species of the genus reaching almost tree-like proportions of high, with a firm trunk that is covered in a thick layer of cork that protects it from most fires, with greyish or green narrow or broad inverted egg-shaped leaves with three to ten teeth near the tip, and large yellow flowerheads, with firm, bent, yellow styles that stick far beyond the rest of the flower and give the impression of a pincushion.

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Leucospermum cordatum

Leucospermum cordatum is an evergreen, creeping shrublet of about 20 cm (8 in) high that is assigned to the Proteaceae family.

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Leucospermum cordifolium

Leucospermum cordifolium is an upright, evergreen shrub of up to 1½ m (5 ft) high that is assigned to the Proteaceae.

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Leucospermum cuneiforme

Leucospermum cuneiforme is an upright evergreen shrub with many pustules growing on the lower branches, wedge-shaped leaves, and oval, initially yellow flower heads that later turn orange, with long styles sticking far beyond the perianths, jointly giving the impression of a pincushion.

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Leucospermum erubescens

Leucospermum erubescens is an evergreen shrub of up to 2 m (6 ft) high, with hairless, lancet-shaped to oval leaves with three to seven teeth near the tip of 7–8½ cm (2.8–3.4 in) long and 1–2 cm (0.2–0.4 in) wide, slightly asymmetric, oval flower heads of 5–6½ cm (2–2½ in) in diameter, and usually with four to eight clustered near the end of the branches, with initially yellow flowers, that change to deep crimson, from which long styles stick out, giving the flowerhead as a whole the appearance of a pincushion.

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Leucospermum formosum

Leucospermum formosum is a large upright shrub of up to 3 m (10 ft) high, that is assigned to the Proteaceae family.

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Leucospermum gerrardii

Leucospermum gerrardii is an evergreen, mat-forming shrub of mostly about 30 cm (12 in) high and up to in diameter, with branches originating from an underground rootstock.

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Leucospermum glabrum

Leucospermum glabrum is an evergreen, rounded, upright shrub of up to 2½ m (8 ft) high, that is assigned to the Proteaceae family.

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Leucospermum grandiflorum

Leucospermum grandiflorum is an evergreen, upright shrub of up to 2½ m (7½ ft) high that is assigned to the Proteaceae family.

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Leucospermum gueinzii

Leucospermum gueinzii is an evergreen, upright shrub of 2–3 m (6–9 ft) high that is assigned to the Proteaceae family.

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Leucospermum hamatum

Leucospermum hamatum is mat-forming, evergreen shrublet of only about high, that is assigned to the Proteaceae.

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Leucospermum harpagonatum

Leucospermum harpagonatum is an evergreen trailing shrublet with leathery, line-shaped, upright leaves and small heads with eight to ten cream, later carmine-colored, strongly incurved flowers assigned to the Proteaceae family.

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Leucospermum heterophyllum

Leucospermum heterophyllum is a low, trailing evergreen shrublet of up to 15 cm (6 in) high, and up to several m in diameter, which is assigned to the Proteaceae family.

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Leucospermum hypophyllocarpodendron

Leucospermum hypophyllocarpodendron is a creeping, mat-forming shrub with heads of yellow flowers and leathery, upright narrow leaves with some red-tipped teeth at their tips, that is assigned to the Proteaceae family.

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Leucospermum innovans

Leucospermum innovans is an upright evergreen shrub with many pustules growing on the lower branches, wedge-shaped leaves, and oval, flower heads that are yellow on the outside, but with scarlet stripes on the inside of the perianth claws, with long styles sticking far beyond the perianths, jointly giving the impression of a pincushion.

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Leucospermum lineare

Leucospermum lineare is an evergreen shrub with linear leaves and is assigned to the Proteaceae.

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Leucospermum muirii

Leucospermum muirii is a rounded, upright, evergreen shrub of about 1½ m (5 ft) high, with a single trunk at its base, that is assigned to the Proteaceae.

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Leucospermum oleifolium

Leucospermum oleifolium is an erect shrub of about high and 1½ m (5 ft) across that is assigned to the Proteaceae family.

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Leucospermum parile

Leucospermum parile is a rounded shrub, of up to 1½ m (6 ft) high that is assigned to the Proteaceae family.

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Leucospermum patersonii

Leucospermum patersonii is a large evergreen, upright shrub of up to 4 m (13 ft) high that is assigned to the Proteaceae family.

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Leucospermum pluridens

Leucospermum pluridens is a large upright evergreen shrub of up to 3 m (10 ft) high assigned to the Proteaceae family.

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Leucospermum praecox

Leucospermum praecox is an evergreen, rounded, upright shrub of up to 3 m (9 ft) high, and 4 m (12 ft) in diameter that is assigned to the Proteaceae family.

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Leucospermum praemorsum

Leucospermum praemorsum is a shrub native to South Africa.

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Leucospermum prostratum

Leucospermum prostratum is a trailing shrub of up to in diameter that has been assigned to the Proteaceae.

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Leucospermum reflexum

Leucospermum reflexum is a large rounded shrub that is assigned to the Proteaceae family.

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Leucospermum saxosum

Leucospermum saxosum is an upright evergreen shrub of up to high, that is assigned to the Proteaceae family.

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Leucospermum tomentosum

Leucospermum tomentosum is an evergreen, mostly spreading shrublet of approximately 75 cm (3 ft) high and up to 3 m (10 ft) in diameter, with alternately set, linear or narrowly spade-shaped, grey felty leaves, with one to three teeth near the tip.

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Leucospermum tottum

Leucospermum tottum is an upright, evergreen shrub of up to 1½ m (4½ ft) high and 2 m (6 ft) in diameter that is assigned to the Proteaceae.

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Leucospermum truncatulum

Leucospermum truncatulum is a slender, upright, evergreen, hardly branching shrub of up to 2 m (6 ft) high, with felty inverted egg-shaped to oval, leaves with entire margins of 1–2½ cm (0.4–1.0 in) long and ½–1 cm (0.2–0.4 in) wide.

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Leucospermum truncatum

Leucospermum truncatum, commonly known as the limestone pincushion, is a shrub native to South Africa.

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Leucospermum vestitum

Leucospermum vestitum is an evergreen, upright to more or less spreading shrub of up to 2½ m (9 ft) high and wide that has been assigned to the Proteaceae family.

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Locule

A locule (plural locules) or loculus (plural loculi) (meaning "little place" in Latin) is a small cavity or compartment within an organ or part of an organism (animal, plant, or fungus).

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Malachite sunbird

The malachite sunbird (Nectarinia famosa) is a small nectarivorous bird found from the highlands of Ethiopia southwards to South Africa.

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Michel Adanson

Michel Adanson (7 April 17273 August 1806) was an 18th-century French botanist and naturalist, of Scottish descent.

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Mimetes

Mimetes is a genus of plants in the large family Proteaceae.

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Myrmecochory

Myrmecochory ((sometimes myrmechory); from mýrmēks and χορεία khoreíā "circular dance") is seed dispersal by ants, an ecologically significant ant-plant interaction with worldwide distribution.

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Namaqualand

Namaqualand (Namakwaland) is an arid region of Namibia and South Africa, extending along the west coast over and covering a total area of.

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Nectar

Nectar is a sugar-rich liquid produced by plants in glands called nectaries, either within the flowers with which it attracts pollinating animals, or by extrafloral nectaries, which provide a nutrient source to animal mutualists, which in turn provide antiherbivore protection.

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Nicolaas Laurens Burman

Nicolaas Laurens Burman (27 December 1734 – 11 September 1793) was a Dutch botanist.

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Nut (fruit)

A nut is a fruit composed of an inedible hard shell and a seed, which is generally edible.

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On the cultivation of the plants belonging to the natural order of Proteeae

On the cultivation of the plants belonging to the natural order of Proteeae is an 1809 paper on the family Proteaceae of flowering plants.

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On the natural order of plants called Proteaceae

On the natural order of plants called Proteaceae, also published as "On the Proteaceae of Jussieu", was a paper written by Robert Brown on the taxonomy of the plant family Proteaceae.

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Orange-breasted sunbird

The orange-breasted sunbird (Anthobaphes violacea) is the only member of the bird genus Anthobaphes; however, it is sometimes placed in the genus Nectarinia.

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Orothamnus

Orothamnus (Greek 'oros' mountain, 'thamnos' bush) or 'Marsh Rose' is a monotypic fynbos genus in the family Proteaceae occurring in the Kogelberg and Kleinrivier Mountains of Hottentots-Holland in the Western Cape Province of South Africa.

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Otto Kuntze

Carl Ernst Otto Kuntze (23 June 1843 – 27 January 1907) was a German botanist.

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Otto Stapf

Otto Stapf FRS (23 April 1857 in Perneck near Bad Ischl – 3 August 1933 in Innsbruck) was an Austrian born botanist and taxonomist, the son of Joseph Stapf, who worked in the Hallstatt salt-mines.

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Ovary (botany)

In the flowering plants, an ovary is a part of the female reproductive organ of the flower or gynoecium.

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Ovule

In seed plants, the ovule is the structure that gives rise to and contains the female reproductive cells.

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Paranomus

Paranomus is a genus of 18 species of plants, commonly known as "sceptres", in the protea family.

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Paul Hermann (botanist)

Paul Hermann (30 June 1646, Halle – 29 January 1695, Leiden) was a German born physician and botanist who for 15 years was director of the Hortus Botanicus Leiden.

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Perianth

The perianth (perigonium, perigon or perigone) is the non-reproductive part of the flower, and structure that forms an envelope surrounding the sexual organs, consisting of the calyx (sepals) and the corolla (petals).

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Peter Jonas Bergius

Peter Jonas Bergius (born 1730 in Kronoberg, Sweden - died 1790) was a Swedish medical doctor and botanist.

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Petiole (botany)

In botany, the petiole is the stalk that attaches the leaf blade to the stem.

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Pheromone

A pheromone (from Ancient Greek φέρω phero "to bear" and hormone, from Ancient Greek ὁρμή "impetus") is a secreted or excreted chemical factor that triggers a social response in members of the same species.

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Ploidy

Ploidy is the number of complete sets of chromosomes in a cell, and hence the number of possible alleles for autosomal and pseudoautosomal genes.

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Pollen

Pollen is a fine to coarse powdery substance comprising pollen grains which are male microgametophytes of seed plants, which produce male gametes (sperm cells).

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Pollen-presenter

A pollen-presenter is an area on the tip of the style in flowers of plants of the family Proteaceae on which the anthers release their pollen prior to anthesis.

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Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis

Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis (1824–1873), also known by its standard botanical abbreviation Prodr.

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Prostrate shrub

A prostrate shrub is a woody plant, most of the branches of which lie upon or just above the ground, rather than being held erect as are the branches of most trees and shrubs.

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Protea

Protea is both the botanical name and the English common name of a genus of South African flowering plants, sometimes also called sugarbushes (Afrikaans: suikerbos) or Fynbos.

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Proteaceae

The Proteaceae are a family of flowering plants predominantly distributed in the Southern Hemisphere.

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Receptacle (botany)

In botany, the receptacle or torus (an older term is thalamus, as in Thalamiflorae) is the thickened part of a stem (pedicel) from which the flower organs grow.

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Red-winged starling

The red-winged starling (Onychognathus morio) is a bird of the starling family Sturnidae native to eastern Africa from Ethiopia to the Cape in South Africa.

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Richard Anthony Salisbury

Richard Anthony Salisbury, FRS (born Richard Anthony Markham; 2 May 1761 – 23 March 1829) was a British botanist.

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Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)

Robert Brown FRSE FRS FLS MWS (21 December 1773 – 10 June 1858) was a Scottish botanist and palaeobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope.

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Rootstock

A rootstock is part of a plant, often an underground part, from which new above-ground growth can be produced.

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Section (botany)

In botany, a section (sectio) is a taxonomic rank below the genus, but above the species.

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Self-incompatibility

Self-incompatibility (SI) is a general name for several genetic mechanisms in angiosperms, which prevent self-fertilization and thus encourage outcrossing and allogamy.

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Senescence

Senescence or biological ageing is the gradual deterioration of function characteristic of most complex lifeforms, arguably found in all biological kingdoms, that on the level of the organism increases mortality after maturation.

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Serruria

Serruria is a genus of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae, endemic to South Africa.

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Shrub

A shrub or bush is a small to medium-sized woody plant.

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Sister group

A sister group or sister taxon is a phylogenetic term denoting the closest relatives of another given unit in an evolutionary tree.

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Soil seed bank

The soil seed bank is the natural storage of seeds, often dormant, within the soil of most ecosystems.

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Sorocephalus

Sorocephalus is a genus containing 11 species of flowering plants, commonly known as powderpuffs, in the Proteaceae family.

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Southern double-collared sunbird

The southern double-collared sunbird or lesser double-collared sunbird (Cinnyris chalybeus) (formerly placed in the genus Nectarinia), is a small passerine bird which breeds in southern Africa.

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Spatalla

Spatalla is a genus containing 20 species of flowering plants, commonly known as "spoons", in the Proteaceae family.

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Species Plantarum

Species Plantarum (Latin for "The Species of Plants") is a book by Carl Linnaeus, originally published in 1753, which lists every species of plant known at the time, classified into genera.

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Spencer Le Marchant Moore

Spencer Le Marchant Moore (1 November 1850 – 14 March 1931) was an English botanist.

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Stilbaai

Stilbaai, also known as the Bay of Sleeping Beauty, is a town along the southern coast of South Africa about four hours by car from Cape Town.

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Stipule

In botany, stipule (Latin stipula: straw, stalk) is a term coined by LinnaeusConcise English Dictionary Wordsworth Editions Ltd.

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Striped field mouse

The striped field mouse (Apodemus agrarius) is a rodent in the family Muridae.

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Table Mountain

Table Mountain (Khoekhoe: Huri ‡oaxa, where the sea rises; Afrikaans: Tafelberg) is a flat-topped mountain forming a prominent landmark overlooking the city of Cape Town in South Africa.

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Table Mountain Sandstone

The Table Mountain Sandstone (TMS) is a group of rock formations within the Cape Supergroup sequence of rocks.

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Telopea (journal)

Telopea is a fully open-access, online, peer-reviewed scientific journal that rapidly publishes original research on plant systematics, with broad content that covers Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.

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Tepal

A tepal is one of the outer parts of a flower (collectively the perianth) when these parts cannot easily be divided into two kinds, sepals and petals.

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The Paradisus Londinensis

The Paradisus Londonensis (full title The Paradisus Londonensis: or Coloured Figures of Plants Cultivated in the Vicinity of the Metropolis) is a book dated 1805–1808.

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Tribe (biology)

In biology, a tribe is a taxonomic rank above genus, but below family and subfamily.

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Trichostetha capensis

Trichostetha capensis—also known as brunia beetle—is an afrotropical species of flower scarab beetle endemic to South Africa, where it occurs in the Cape Floristic Region.

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Trichostetha fascicularis

Trichostetha fascicularis is a large, metallic-green beetle found in South Africa.

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Validly published name

In botanical nomenclature, a validly published name is a name that meets the requirements in the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants for valid publication.

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Van Dyks Bay

Van Dyks Bay is a settlement in Overberg District Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

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Vexatorella

Vexatorella is a genus containing four species of flowering plant, commonly known as vexators, in the Proteaceae family.

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Wildfire

A wildfire or wildland fire is a fire in an area of combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside or rural area.

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William Hooker (botanical illustrator)

William Hooker (1779–1832) was a British illustrator of natural history.

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Witsand

Witsand is a small coastal town at the mouth of the Breede River in the Western Cape, South Africa.

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Witteberg

The Witteberg or Witteberge is a South African mountain range just off the south-west corner of Lesotho.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucospermum

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