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Lionfaces (Genus Nemesia)Observer
petrabroddleDescription
Shallow sand over undulating clay. Cape Flats Sand Fynbos & Swartland Shale Renosterveld ecotone.
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Common Thread Orchid (Holothrix villosa ssp. villosa)Observer
petrabroddleDescription
Shallow sand over undulating clay. Cape Flats Sand Fynbos & Swartland Shale Renosterveld ecotone.
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Early Nancy (Wurmbea dioica)Observer
karenretraDescription
A hillside meadow of these flowering.
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Yellow Soldier Viooltjie (Lachenalia reflexa)Observer
petrabroddleDescription
R, in seed. Next to track,
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Common Hairy Bigstyle (Macrostylis villosa ssp. villosa)Observer
petrabroddleDescription
Note hairy lvs
Also see observation below that is not hairy. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/168944341
https://archive.org/details/journalofsouthaf47unse/page/380/mode/2up?view=theater
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Capesprays (Genus Struthiola)Observer
petrabroddleDescription
Hypanthium not hairy.
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Fringe Falseslugwort (Dischisma ciliatum)Observer
petrabroddleDescription
Ecotone b/n Cape Flats Dune Strandveld and Cape Flats Sand Fynbos.
9th Jan. 2023 - gone - housing development.
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Psoralea bolusiiObserver
charles_stirtonDescription
Lax low spreading shrub. Leaves with patent hairs. Flowers pink; front of standard with large violet purple patch and two white-flecked horn-like nectar "guides". Wing tips bulging. Leaf tips strongly recurved. Branches blackish. Open sandy patches with Restios and large proteaceous shrubs scattered in between. Fynbos ,FFs6 Piketberg Fynbos Sandstone. Herbarium voucher Stirton 13966 (BOL).
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White Slugwort (Hebenstretia repens)Observer
petrabroddleDescription
Division in opinion
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Longhorn Twinspur (Diascia longicornis)Observer
petrabroddleDescription
Long spurs.
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Pauridia affinisObserver
carinalochnerDescription
Is this a yellow Pauridia alba? - Vergelegen
Plant about 6 cm and looks very much like P. alba. Maybe flowering a bit late. According to Cape Plants they do come in yellow. See prune like bulb in pic 2.
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Small Tulp (Moraea minor)Observer
petrabroddleDescription
One leaf, slender staminal column (not swollen at base).
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Snakeflowers (Genus Tritoniopsis)Observer
petrabroddleDescription
About seven plants together.
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Yelloweye Woodsorrel (Oxalis obtusa)Observer
karoopixieDescription
I think that, after 10 years, I have finally seen oxalis fruit...
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Small-flowered Onion Grass (Romulea minutiflora)Observer
mattwardDescription
I have not seen this weed before... probably not again =)
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King Kalkoentjie (Gladiolus alatus)Observer
petrabroddleDescription
These small lvs belong to alatus
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Trailing Indigo (Indigofera procumbens)Observer
charles_stirtonDescription
Indigofera procumbens
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Threenerve Catstail (Bulbinella trinervis)Observer
petrabroddleDescription
Frequent. Three or four long leaves. Sheath at base.
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Furry Eveninglily (Hesperantha pilosa)Observer
jacquesmerwe923Description
On a gravelly seasonal wetland. Atlantis Sand Fynbos.
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Lunch Clockflower (Moraea fugacissima)Observer
nickyDescription
Moraea fugacissima
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Woolly Dollsrose (Hermannia althaeifolia)Observer
petrabroddleDescription
Covered with glandular hairs. Calyx inflated. Hairy ovary.
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Limonium purpuratumObserver
jacquesmerwe923Description
Strandroos (Limonium purpuratum) - maybe
Cant remember the name of this one. Its apparently Critically Endangered. Any takers?
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Multistem Sorrel (Oxalis multicaulis)Observer
wesleyrDescription
Oxalis versicolor ?
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jacquesmerwe923Description
Moist patches in Swartland Silcrete Renosterveld.
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King Kalkoentjie (Gladiolus alatus)Observer
petrabroddleDescription
Might be this. 25 - 30 cm in height.
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Lineleaf Perdekaroo (Oedera fruticosa)Observer
petrabroddleDescription
(low F)
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Spoon Flowerseed (Anthospermum spathulatum)Observer
petrabroddleDescription
Lvs opposite, decussate (when alternate pairs are at right angles to each other). Lvs spathulate (shaped like a spoon).
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Capesaffrons (Genus Gnidia)Observer
petrabroddleDescription
Low F in one general cluster.
Only this single flower open, a few clustered buds lower down.
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Spotted Painted Reedfrog (Hyperolius marmoratus ssp. verrucosus)Observer
mikehyde
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Black Rain Frog (Breviceps fuscus)Observer
colin25Description
Thanks to Tyrone Ping for permission to use them to add to the GRBG Project.
