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The Flora of the Natal Drakensberg

Cover of The Flora of the Natal Drakensberg

Authors: Donald Killick

Number of pages: 200

Year published: 1990

Edition: 1st

Published by: Jonathan Ball and Ad. Donker Publications

Softcover

ISBN: 0 947464 35 2

Web site: Jonathan Ball Publishers

The Wildebeest's Review of "The Flora of the Natal Drakensberg"

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Some of the subjects in this publication

Red Alpine Thread Moss - Page: 48
Old Man s Beard - Page: 48
Ramalina celastri - Page: 48
Squamidium brasiliense - Page: 48
Bristly Swan-necked Moss - Page: 48
Parmelia reticulata - Page: 48
Bracken - Page: 52
Common Tree Fern - Page: 52
Scented Fern - Page: 52
Four-pinnate Lip Fern - Page: 54
Fine Maidenhair Fern - Page: 54
Mother Fern - Page: 54
Carrot Fern - Page: 54
Lance Fern - Page: 56
Long-tipped Pteris - Page: 56
Drakensberg Shield Fern - Page: 56
Pleopeltis polypodioides - Page: 56
Real Yellowwood - Page: 60
Mountain Cypress - Page: 60
Outeniqua Yellowwood (see 4298) - Page: 60
Drakensberg Cycad - Page: 60
Henkel s Yellowwood - Page: 60
Cape Chestnut - Page: 64
Nana-berry Karee - Page: 64
Horsewood - Page: 64
Cape Holly - Page: 64
Oldwood - Page: 64
River Willow - Page: 66
Sugarbush - Page: 66
Lip-flower Sugarbush - Page: 66
Silver Sugarbush - Page: 66
White Stinkwood - Page: 66
Cape Blackwood - Page: 68
Hedgehog Candlewood - Page: 68
Silky-bark - Page: 68
Dogwood - Page: 68
Natal Bottlebrush - Page: 68
Common Cabbage-Tree - Page: 70
Wild Mulberry - Page: 70
Mountain Hard Pear - Page: 70
Mountain Cabbage Tree - Page: 70
Wild Peach - Page: 70
Sagewood - Page: 72
Tree Fuchsia - Page: 72
Bladder-nut - Page: 72
Wild Pomegranate - Page: 72
Natal Shell-flower Bush - Page: 72
Cape-beech - Page: 72
Cliffortia linearifolia - Page: 76
Drakensberg Sugarbush - Page: 76
Purple Broom - Page: 76
Grey-leaf Bush - Page: 76
Lotononis trisegmentata - Page: 76
Clutia natalensis - Page: 76
Pompon Tree - Page: 78
Berg Melianthus - Page: 78
Grassveld Currant - Page: 78
Passerina drakensbergensis - Page: 78
Mountain Tree Heath - Page: 80
Cape Myrtle - Page: 80
Red Hairy Heath - Page: 80
Fire-sticks - Page: 80
Erica drakensbergensis - Page: 80
Large-flowered Pink Plume - Page: 82
Eastern River Bells - Page: 82
Broad-leaved Minaret Flower - Page: 82
Anthospermum monticola - Page: 82
Gnidia polyantha - Page: 82
Euryops tysonii - Page: 84
Artemisia afra - Page: 84
Wild Aster - Page: 84
Euryops evansii - Page: 84
Gymnopentzia bifurcata - Page: 84
Eumorphia sericea - Page: 86
Sticky Everlasting - Page: 86
Common Flowerbush - Page: 86
Inulanthera calva - Page: 86
Lotononis galpinii - Page: 90
Erica woodii - Page: 90
Beesbossie - Page: 90
Erica oatesii - Page: 90
Erica dominans - Page: 90
Alpine Everlasting - Page: 90
Traveller s Joy - Page: 94
Christmas Bells - Page: 94
Butter Lily - Page: 94
Myrsiphyllum asparagoides - Page: 94
Candle Vine - Page: 96
Canary Creeper - Page: 96
Ludwig s Ample Bramble - Page: 96
Forest Bramble - Page: 96
Forest Elephant s Foot - Page: 96
Krantz Aloe - Page: 100
Grass Aloe - Page: 100
Soap Aloe - Page: 100
Aloe aristata - Page: 100
Crassula dependens - Page: 102
White Lady - Page: 102
Lion s Spoor - Page: 102
Yellow Crassula - Page: 102
Mountain Vygie - Page: 102
Cyperus obtusiflorus - Page: 106
Drooping Sedge - Page: 106
Scirpus falsus - Page: 106
Pycreus cooperi - Page: 106
Red Grass - Page: 110
Spear Grass - Page: 110
Caterpillar Grass - Page: 110
Black-seed Grass - Page: 110
Oplismenus undulatifolius - Page: 110
Common Thatching Grass - Page: 112
Daba Grass - Page: 112
Wire Grass - Page: 112
Cymbopogon validus - Page: 112
Trachypogon spicatus - Page: 112
Common Reed - Page: 114
Bromus firmior - Page: 114
Koeleria - Page: 114
Festuca costata - Page: 114
Festuca caprina - Page: 114
Mountain Wire Grass - Page: 116
Merxmuellera drakensbergensis - Page: 116
Merxmuellera macowanii - Page: 116
Pentaschistis oreodoxa - Page: 116
Pentaschistis tysonii - Page: 116
Polystachya ottoniana - Page: 120
Rabbit s Ears - Page: 120
Lesotho Dianthus - Page: 120
Blushing Bride Orchid - Page: 120
Wild Iris - Page: 120
Dwarf Pineapple Lily - Page: 122
Arrow-leaved Arum - Page: 122
Poison Snake Head - Page: 122
Ixopo Red-hot Poker - Page: 122
Galtonia regalis - Page: 122
Bicoloured Pineapple Lily - Page: 124
Red Star - Page: 124
Crane s Bill - Page: 124
False Moorwort - Page: 124
Giant Anemone - Page: 126
Mountain Spur-flower - Page: 126
White Geranium - Page: 126
Afrotysonia glochidiata - Page: 126
Star-flowered Kalmoes - Page: 126
Rabdosiella calycina - Page: 128
Large White Inkflower - Page: 128
Two-lipped Drumsticks - Page: 128
Becium grandiflorum - Page: 128
Hirpicium armerioides - Page: 130
Kohautia amatymbica - Page: 130
Wild Scabiosa - Page: 130
Cephalaria natalensis - Page: 130
Aster pleiocephalus - Page: 130
Lion s Tongue - Page: 134
Silver-leaved Star-flower - Page: 134
Zig-zag Crocosmia - Page: 134
Moraea alticola - Page: 134
Hypoxis acuminata - Page: 134
Common Marsh Poker - Page: 136
Grey-leaved Poker - Page: 136
Highveld Red-hot Poker - Page: 136
Kniphofia northiae - Page: 136
Kniphofia angustifolia - Page: 136
Yellow Dobo Lily - Page: 138
Pale Yellow Eriosema - Page: 138
Mock Fire Lily - Page: 138
Wild Orange Begonia - Page: 138
Common Pineapple Lily - Page: 138
Cotula paludosa - Page: 138
Common Buttercup - Page: 140
Nasturtium-leaved Buttercup - Page: 140
Peperomia tetraphylla - Page: 140
Euphorbia epicyparissias - Page: 140
Hypericum lalandii - Page: 140
Lesser Yellow-head - Page: 142
Fairy-bell Pachycarpus - Page: 142
Sebaea thodeana - Page: 142
Peucedanum thodei - Page: 142
Helichrysum acutatum - Page: 142
Helichrysum aureonitens - Page: 144
Helichrysum splendidum - Page: 144
Helichrysum flanaganii - Page: 144
Helichrysum cooperi - Page: 144
Helichrysum miconiifolium - Page: 144
Spiny Berg-thistle - Page: 146
Common Gazania - Page: 146
False Gerbera - Page: 146
Senecio haygarthii - Page: 146
Senecio glaberrimus - Page: 146
Giant Nerine - Page: 150
Ifafa Lily - Page: 150
Blood Lily - Page: 150
River Lily - Page: 150
Brunsvigia natalensis - Page: 150
Dierama latifolium - Page: 152
Drakensberg Watsonia - Page: 152
Small Wild Gladiolus - Page: 152
Large Orange Watsonia - Page: 152
Dierama dracomontanum - Page: 152
Gladiolus flanaganii - Page: 152
Apple-blossom Orchid - Page: 154
Grassland Cross-flower - Page: 154
Cooper s Squill - Page: 154
Fringed Stenoglottis - Page: 154
Disa fragrans - Page: 154
Burchell s Clover - Page: 156
Wild Impatiens - Page: 156
Fleshy-leaved Pink Sorrel - Page: 156
Wild Poppy - Page: 156
Rhodohypoxis rubella - Page: 156
Showy Geranium - Page: 158
Indigofera cuneifolia - Page: 158
Mountain Balloon Pea - Page: 158
Geranium magniflorum - Page: 158
Greater Twinspur - Page: 160
River Pumpkin - Page: 160
Acalypha schinzii - Page: 160
Acalypha wilmsii - Page: 160
Quilted-leaved Vernonia - Page: 162
Silvery Sopubia - Page: 162
Pink Everlasting - Page: 162
Large Pink Mushroom Flower - Page: 162
Sutera breviflora - Page: 162
Bell Agapanthus - Page: 166
Common Blue Moraea - Page: 166
Wild Squill - Page: 166
Small Black-stick Lily - Page: 166
Talbotia elegans - Page: 166
Streptocarpus gardenii - Page: 168
Broadleaf Pentanisia - Page: 168
Bugle Plant - Page: 168
Myosotis sylvatica - Page: 168
Barleria monticola - Page: 168
Butterfly Monopsis - Page: 170
Lobelia preslii - Page: 170
Craterocapsa tarsodes - Page: 170
Pale Bluebell - Page: 170
Aster perfoliatus - Page: 170
Wahlenbergia tarsodes - Page: 170

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