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Psoralea Cataracta
''Psoralea cataracta'' is a species of flowering plant in the genus '' Psoralea''. It was declared extinct in 2008 in the Red Data List of South African Plants, with a single specimen collected from the Tulbagh Waterfall in 1804. It was rediscovered 200 years later by Brian Du Preez in November of 2019 in the Winterhoek Mountains near Tulbagh. It is endemic to the Western Cape. It is also known by the name waterfall fountainbush. Description ''Psoralea cataracta'' has small purple flowers dangling on long, thread-like flower stalks. File:Psoralea cataracta Waterfall Fountainbush 2.jpg File:Psoralea cataracta Waterfall Fountainbush 3.jpg File:Psoralea cataracta Waterfall Fountainbush 4.jpg File:Psoralea cataracta Waterfall Fountainbush 5.jpg Distribution ''Psoralea cataracta'' is found around Tulbagh. Conservation status As of the 2008 classification, ''Psoralea cataracta'' is classified as ''Extinct''. References External links * Endemic flora of South ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South African National Biodiversity Institute
The South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) is an organisation established in 2004 in terms of the National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act, No 10 of 2004, under the South African Department of Environmental Affairs (later named Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries The Department of Environment, Forestry & Fisheries is one of the departments of the South African government. It is responsible for protecting, conserving and improving the South African environment and natural resources. It was created i ...), tasked with research and dissemination of information on biodiversity, and legally mandated to contribute to the management of the country’s biodiversity resources. History SANBI was established on 1 September 2004 in terms of the National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act, No 10 of 2004. Previously, in 1989, the autonomous statutory National Botanical Institute (NBI) had been formed from the National Botanic Garde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South African National Biodiversity Institute
The South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) is an organisation established in 2004 in terms of the National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act, No 10 of 2004, under the South African Department of Environmental Affairs (later named Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries The Department of Environment, Forestry & Fisheries is one of the departments of the South African government. It is responsible for protecting, conserving and improving the South African environment and natural resources. It was created i ...), tasked with research and dissemination of information on biodiversity, and legally mandated to contribute to the management of the country’s biodiversity resources. History SANBI was established on 1 September 2004 in terms of the National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act, No 10 of 2004. Previously, in 1989, the autonomous statutory National Botanical Institute (NBI) had been formed from the National Botanic Garde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flowering Plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants that produce their seeds enclosed within a fruit. They are by far the most diverse group of land plants with 64 orders, 416 families, approximately 13,000 known genera and 300,000 known species. Angiosperms were formerly called Magnoliophyta (). Like gymnosperms, angiosperms are seed-producing plants. They are distinguished from gymnosperms by characteristics including flowers, endosperm within their seeds, and the production of fruits that contain the seeds. The ancestors of flowering plants diverged from the common ancestor of all living gymnosperms before the end of the Carboniferous, over 300 million years ago. The closest fossil relatives of flowering plants are uncertain and contentious. The earliest angiosperm fossils ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psoralea
''Psoralea'' is a genus in the legume family (Fabaceae) with over 60 closely related species native to southern Africa. In South Africa they are commonly referred to as fountainbush (English); fonteinbos, bloukeur, or penwortel (Afrikaans); and umHlonishwa (Zulu). Species * '' Psoralea abbottii'' C.H.Stirt. * ''Psoralea aculeata'' L. * '' Psoralea affinis'' Eckl. & Zeyh. * '' Psoralea alata'' (Thunb.) T.M.Salter * ''Psoralea angustifolia'' L'Hér. * ''Psoralea aphylla'' L. * '' Psoralea arborea'' Sims * '' Psoralea asarina'' (P.J.Bergius) T.M.Salter * '' Psoralea axillaris'' L.f. * '' Psoralea azuroides'' C.H.Stirt. * '' Psoralea brilliantissima'' C.H.Stirt., Muasya & A.Bello * '' Psoralea cataracta'' C.H.Stirt. * '' Psoralea congesta'' C.H.Stirt. & Muasya * '' Psoralea diturnerae'' A. Bello, C.H. Stirt. & Muasya * ''Psoralea elegans'' C.H.Stirt. * '' Psoralea ensifolia'' (Houtt.) Merr. * '' Psoralea fascicularis'' DC. , syn. '' Psoralea tenuifolia'' Thunb. , syn. ''Psoralea thu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Data List Of South African Plants
Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet. It has a dominant wavelength of approximately 625–740 nanometres. It is a primary color in the RGB color model and a secondary color (made from magenta and yellow) in the CMYK color model, and is the complementary color of cyan. Reds range from the brilliant yellow-tinged scarlet and vermillion to bluish-red crimson, and vary in shade from the pale red pink to the dark red burgundy. Red pigment made from ochre was one of the first colors used in prehistoric art. The Ancient Egyptians and Mayans colored their faces red in ceremonies; Roman generals had their bodies colored red to celebrate victories. It was also an important color in China, where it was used to color early pottery and later the gates and walls of palaces. In the Renaissance, the brilliant red costumes for the nobility and wealthy were dyed with kermes and cochineal. The 19th century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tulbagh Waterfall
Tulbagh, named after Dutch Cape Colony Governor Ryk Tulbagh, is a town located in the "Land van Waveren" mountain basin (also known as the Tulbagh basin), in the Cape Winelands District Municipality, Winelands of the Western Cape, South Africa. The basin is fringed on three sides by mountains, and is drained by the Klein Berg River and its tributaries. The nearest towns are Ons Rust and Gouda, Western Cape, Gouda beyond the Nuwekloof Pass, Wolseley, Western Cape, Wolseley some to the south inside the basin, and Ceres, Western Cape, Ceres and Prince Alfred Hamlet beyond Michell's Pass in the Warm Bokkeveld. History The basin has been inhabited for thousands of years by indigenous Bushmen and Khoi-San peoples. It was about 300 years ago when, after a land grant by the Dutch Colonialism, Colonial Government to a more or less equal number of Dutch people, Dutch and Huguenot settlers to settle the area, that the town of Tulbagh was founded. The region was named "Land van Waveren" i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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