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KNIPHOFIA
Cape Red Hot Poker (
Wf
) Red Hot Poker, Vuurpyl (
Le
)
Family:
ASPHODELACEAE
For Johann Hieronymus Kniphof (1704-1763).**
(
Ch
)
Kniphofia tabularis
(
La
)
Location: (
K
)
tabula, = a board, plank;
-alis, -aris, = belonging or pertaining to, resembling, provided with.
tabularis, = flattened horizontally, plate like, (in geographical epithets) growing on Table Mountain, South Africa)
(
ld
,
BL
)
Kniphofia uvaria
(
La
)
Red-hot Poker, Rooisoldate, Stinkaalwyn, Vuurpyl (
PS
)
Location: (
F
,
K
)
uva, = the fruit of the vine, a grape; a bunch or cluster of grapes; of other plants, a bunch or cluster of fruit;
-arius, = indicates connexion or possession.
(like a bunch of grapes, i.e. with clustered rounded parts)
(
ld
,
BL
)