Autumn has arrived in the Overberg. The nights are drawing in and becoming cooler and planting season is well underway for the farmers.
Archive for category: Species
Hesperantha sp
Name a newly discovered flower.
What species is this?
If you have taken photos of plants or animals in the fynbos or elsewhere, you can post them on www.ispot.org.za and there is a good chance that somebody will identify them for you!
New Species – Ficinia gordongrayae
A new sedge: a miniature Ficinia sp., only about 6 cm tall. This little gem sometimes forms little "fairy rings" and only grows on quartz and silcrete outcrops in the eastern Overberg's renosterveld.
New Species – Aspalathus microlithica
This creeping Aspalathus has tiny leaves and very small flowers and grows only on silcrete-quartz patches in the Eastern Overberg.
New Species – Hesperantha sp
A new bulb, found only on one site on quartz renosterveld. The naming of this plant will be auctioned and the proceeds used towards the Overberg Lowlands Conservation Trust.
New Species – Otholobium curtisiae
Recently dicovered on the silcrete outcrops in the renosterveld in the eastern Overberg.
New Species – Polhillia curtisiae
A new member of a small genus, belonging to the legume family, and which mostly occurs only in the renosterveld of the eastern Overberg.