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GYMNOSPORIA
(
G
)
Pendoring (
Le
)
Family:
CELASTRACEAE
gymnos, = naked, unclad, unarmed;
(naked, unclad, unarmed, stripped)
spora, = seed, offspring, issue.
(seed; in modern botany, ‘spore’.)
(
LS
,
BL
)
Gymnosporia buxifolia
(
La
)
Common Spikethorn, Gewone Pendoring, Hondebos, Umqaqoba (
PS
)
Location: (
F
,
P
)
buxus, = the pale, evergreen box-tree; box-wood, for things made of box-wood; a pipe or flute;
folium, = a leaf.
(with leaves like the ‘box’ in the genus BUXUS)
(
ld
,
K3
)
Gymnosporia heterophylla
(
G
)
Angle-stem Spikethorn, Riffelstam-pendoring (
PS
)
Location: (
F
)
(h)eteros, = other (than usual), different, of other kind;
(different, other, uneven)
phyllon, = a leaf.
(
LS
,
BL
)