Five new species of Erica (Ericaceae) from the Swartberg Range, Western Cape, South Africa and a note on E. esterhuyseniae

Bothalia ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. G. H. Oliver ◽  
I. M. Oliver

Descriptions are provided of five new species of Erica L. from the Klein and Groot Swartberg Mountains in Western Cape,South Africa. The two known populations of E. dolfiana E.G.H.Oliv. are confined to the stony, southern slopes of two well- separated areas.  E. taylorii E.G.H.Oliv. is also known from two well-separated populations on the Swartberg but with the others in the ( ederberg. The other three new species are allied to E. esterhuyseniae Compton:  E. chionodes E.G.H.Oliv., with brilliant white flowers, occurs only in seepage zones in two well-separated areas, E. oreotragus E.G.H.Oliv. (syn. E. esterhuyseniae Compton var.  trimera Compton) with pale pink to white flowers and E. blaerioides E.G.H.Oliv. with white flowers, are widespread in the central and western Swartberg Range.

Bothalia ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. G. H. Oliver ◽  
I. M. Oliver

THREE NEW SPECIES OF ERICA FROM WESTERN CAPE. SOUTH AFRICA


Bothalia ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. D. Duncan ◽  
T. J. Edwards

This is the sixth in a series of papers on Lachenalia, towards a revision of the genus. Three new species are described. L. lutea from the southwestern part of the Western Cape, L. cernua from the southern Cape Peninsula and the Worcester Valley of the Western Cape, and L. nardousbergensis from the Bokkeveld Plateau of the Northern Cape, and the Nardousberge and Middelburg Plateaus of the Western Cape.


Bothalia ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. G. H. Oliver ◽  
I. M. Oliver

Three new species of  Erica L. from the mountains of Western Cape, South Africa, are described. E. rustieula E.G.H.Oliv. with an indehiscent fruit, is confined to sandy places in the eastern Cold Bokkeveld. E humidicola E.G.H.Oliv. is a highly localized endemic in seepages in the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve and E rimarum E.G.H.Oliv. is restricted to rock faces at high altitudes in the Hex River Mountains.


Bothalia ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. A. Galley ◽  
H. P. Linder

Three new species of Pentaschistis (Nees) Stapf are described from the Cape Floristic Region. P. trifida. P clavata and P. horrida. The former has been collected from inland ranges of the Cape Fold Belt, from the Cederberg to the Groot Swartberg. the last two each from single sites in the Koue Bokkeveld:  P. clavata on the wetter western border, and P. horrida on the Baviaansberg. Pentaschistis juncifolia Stapf is re-instated, a species from the coastal plains (Hardeveld) between Bredasdorp and Riversdale, which had been included in P. eriostoma (Nees) Stapf.


Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4353 (1) ◽  
pp. 187 ◽  
Author(s):  
THEMBEKA CLARA NXELE ◽  
JADWIGA DANUTA PLISKO ◽  
TAROMBERA MWABVU ◽  
OLIVER TENDAYI ZISHIRI

Four new species of Kazimierzus are described from the Western Cape and Northern Cape, South Africa: K. kleinoodi sp. n., K. nietvoorbiji sp. n., K. nieuwoudtvillensis sp. n., and K. phumlani sp. n. Kazimierzus kleinoodi is distinguished from the other species of this genus by the position of the calciferous glands in 9 and paired spermathecae in five segments. The position of the spermathecae in 11/12–15/16 as well as the position of the calciferous glands in 11 separates K. nietvoorbiji from the other new species. Kazimierzus nieuwoudtvillensis is distinguished from the others by the position of the clitellum (12–25) and spermathecae in four rows. The combination of the position of the clitellum, three rows of spermathecae and the position of the calciferous glands in 10 distinguish K. phumlani from the other species. 


Bothalia ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Manning ◽  
P. Goldblatt

Three new species of the largely Western Cape genus Tritoniopsis L.Bolus are described, bringing the number of species in the genus to 24.  Tritoniopsis bicolor and  T. flava are newly discovered, narrow endemics of the Bredasdorp Mountains and the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve, respectively, in the southwestern Cape. Both of these are areas of high local endemism.  T. toximontana, known since at least 1465 but misunderstood, is restricted to the Gifberg-Matsikamma Mountain complex of northern Western Cape. Notes on the pollination biology of the species are provided.


Bothalia ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Manning ◽  
P. Goldblatt

Three new species of Gladiolus L. are described from South Africa.  G. dolichosiphon is the second known member of series Blandus from the mountains of the Little Karoo in Western Cape, and is distinguished from other members of the long tubed, pink-flowered G. carneus complex by its 5 or 6 linear leaves, creamy pink to salmon flowers with a tube 30-50 mm long and longer than the dorsal tepal, and its late summer flowering. G. karooicus from the Klein Roggeveld and the northern foothills of the Witteberg, is a spring-flowering species allied to G. permeabilis but has bright, canary-yellow flowers with the lower part of the lower tepals involute and conspicuously auriculate.  G. reginae is an edaphic endemic of the Sekhuk- huneland Centre of Floristic Endemism in Mpumalanga, and flowers in autumn. It is evidently a glabrous member of section Densiflorus series Scabridus, distinguished by its long-tubed flowers, streaked with red on the lower tepals and blotched with red in the throat. Anomalously, however, it has the tubular inner bracts and large capsules diagnostic of section Ophiolyza series Oppositiflorus. A re-examination of the morphology suggests that series Scabridus is better placed in section Ophiolyza and a slightly revised classification of Gladiolus in southern Africa is proposed. We also propose the replacement name G. sulculatus for the Tanzanian species, G. sulcatus Goldblatt, a later homonym of G. sulcatus Lam. Finally, a recent sighting of what appears to be G. rubellus from northern Namibia constitutes the first record of this species in the country and a major range extension from its previous known occurrence in southeastern Botswana.


Author(s):  
Carol Simon ◽  
Guillermo San Martín ◽  
Georgina Robinson

Two new species of South African Syllidae of the genusSyllisLamarck, 1818 are described.Syllis unzimasp. nov. is characterized by having unidentate compound chaetae with long spines on margin, a characteristic colour pattern and its reproduction by vivipary. Vivipary is not common among the polychaetes, but most representatives occur in the family Syllidae Grube, 1850 (in five otherSyllisspecies, two species ofDentatisyllisPerkins, 1981 and two species ofParexogoneMesnil & Caullery, 1818).Syllis unzimasp. nov. differs from the other viviparous species in having large broods (>44 juveniles) which develop synchronously. Development of the juveniles is similar to that of free-spawningSyllisspecies, but the appearance of the first pair of eyespots and the differentiation of the pharynx and proventricle occur later inS. unzima.Syllis amicarmillarissp. nov., is characterized by having an elongated body with relatively short, fusiform dorsal cirri and the presence of one or two pseudosimple chaeta on midbody parapodia by loss of blade and enlargement of shaft.Syllis unzimasp. nov. was found in high densities on culturedHolothuria scabraJaeger, 1833 with single specimens found on a culturedCrassostrea gigasThunberg, 1793 and on coralline algae, respectively, whileS. amicarmillariswas found mainly in sediment outside an abalone farm and less frequently on culturedHaliotis midaeLinnaeus, 1758. We discuss the possible benefits of the association withH. scabratoS. unzimasp. nov.


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