Species within a genus

Genus: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
DILATRIS (G)

Family: HAEMODORACEAE
di-, = two;
dis-, = twice, double;
latris, = a hired servant, a servant, a slave.
(two small anthers subservient to the one larger one)
(LS, Le)
Dilatris pillansii
Rooiwortel (Vo)
Location: (F, K, P)
For Mr. Neville Stuart Pillans (1884-1964),** a well-known botanist and assistant curator at the Bolus Herbarium who collected plants near Clanwilliam and grew Gasteria pillansii in his garden in Rosebank, Cape Town, and assisted Prof. Henry Harold Welch Pearson in selecting the Kirstenbosch site for the future National Botanical Garden.
(Ch)
Dilatris viscosa (La)
Yellow Head (Vo)
Location: (F, K)
viscum, = the mistletoe (bird-lime made from the berries of the mistletoe);
-osus, = indicates abundance or full or marked development.
viscosus, = full of bird-lime, sticky, viscous.
(viscid, glutinous, sticky)
(ld, BL, Ox)