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STRUMARIA (G, La)
Cape Snowflake(Le) Tolbol
Family: AMARYLLIDACEAE
stroma, = anything spread out for lying or sitting upon: the bed and bedclothes, mattress, bedding; struo, = pile up; to make by joining together; to build, erect, fabricate, make, form, construct; struma, = a scrofulous tumor. struma; strumus, = a plant that cures the struma; struma, = a cushion-like swelling or tumor; -aria, = relating to or possessing.
(LS, ld, BL)
Strumaria spiralis (La)

Location: (F)
spira, = that which is wound, wreathed, coiled or twisted; a coil, fold, twist, spire; -alis, -aris, = belonging or pertaining to, resembling, provided with. (spiral) (stem is coiled below)
(ld, BL, AB)

The 2515 species, 624 genera and 172 families of plants have been compiled from the lists of the plants:

  • of the Hermanus Botanical Society compiled by Lee Burman, for the plants in the Fernkloof Nature Reserve, and the Vogelgat Private Nature Reserve, Hermanus
  • of Mark Johns, Director of the Kogelberg Reserve, and of COASTEC, environmental consultants, for the plants in the Kogelberg Nature Reserve, Betty’s Bay, in the WesternCape Province, South Africa.

Suggestions for improvements to the lists and comments would be welcomed.