Species within a genus

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DIMORPHOTHECA (G)
African Daisy (Wf) Magriet (Le)
Family: ASTERACEAE

di-, = two;
dis-, = twice, double;
morphe, = form, shape, figure;
[See Morpheus**]
thece, = a case to put anything in, a box, chest.
(two distinct types of fruit in the same species: ray florets have wings, 3-angled fruit and disc florets have flattened, 2-winged fruit)
(LS, Le)

Dimorphotheca acutifolia (La)

Location: (F)

acus, = a needle or pin; as being pointed;
-utus, = indicates possession;
acutus, = sharpened, made pointed, sharp, pointed; acute;
(acute, pointed, i.e. narrowed gradually and making an angle of less than 90º)
folium, = a leaf.
(ld, BL)

Dimorphotheca aff nudicaulis (La)
Ox-eye Daisy, Wildewitmargriet (PS)
Location: (F)

aff, = abbreviation of affinis, = akin to, bordering;
nudus, = naked, bare, unclothed, uncovered, exposed;
(naked, i.e. devoid of leaves or some other clothing, lacking usual covering, bare)
caulis, = the stalk or stem of a plant.
(ld, BL)

Dimorphotheca fruticosa (La)
Rankbitou, Rankmargriet (PS)
Location: (F)

frutex, = a shrub, bush;
-osus, = indicates abundance or full or marked development.
fruticosus, = full of shrubs or bushes, shrubby, bushy.
(bushy; shrub-like)
(ld, BL)

Dimorphotheca montana (La)

Location: (F)

mons, montis, = a mountain, mount;
-anus, = belonging to, connected with, pertaining to, used to form adjectives from nouns, particularly from geographical and personal names.
montanus, = of or belonging to a mountain, mountain-.
(ld, BL)

Dimorphotheca nudicaulis var graminifolia (La)
Ox-eye Daisy, Wildewitmargriet (Sw)
Location: (F, K)

nudus, = naked, bare, unclothed, uncovered, exposed;
(naked, i.e. devoid of leaves or some other clothing, lacking usual covering, bare)
caulis, = the stalk or stem of a plant.

gramen, graminis, = grass;
folium,= a leaf.
(grass-leaved)
(ld, BL)

Dimorphotheca nudicaulis var nudicaulis (La)
Ox-eye Daisy, Witmargriet (PS) Snow Daisy (Wf)
Location: (F, K, P)

nudus, = naked, bare, unclothed, uncovered, exposed;
(naked, i.e. devoid of leaves or some other clothing, lacking usual covering, bare)
caulis, = the stalk or stem of a plant.
(ld, BL)

Dimorphotheca pluvialis (La)
Cape Rain Daisy, Reënblommetjie, Witosblom (PS)
Location: (F)

pluvius, =, rainy, causing or bringing rain, rain ;
-alis, -aris, = belonging or pertaining to, resembling, provided with.
pluvialis, = of or belonging to rain, rainy, rain-.
(ld, BL)

Dimorphotheca walliana (La)

Location: (K)

For Eric Torsten Selim Wall (1871-1959),** plant collector in South Africa, and elsewhere. He travelled with Adolf Hjalmar Frederick Hafström in a car driven by the South African botanist John Phillip Harrison Acocks on their extensive botanical explorations in South Africa and Rhodesia;
-anus, = belonging to, connected with, pertaining to, used to form adjectives from nouns, particularly from geographical and personal names.
(Ch, BL)