• Cyclopia latifolia: Table Mountain Honeybush
Not seen for a long time. Peninsula Endemic
(has a shortly beaked keel with a long pocket) Flowers Sept-Oct.
Localities:
Cape Town: Table Mountain, eastern side, Esterhuysen 4014;
TM: Waai Vley, Wolley-Dod 3399 (presumably near Waaikop).
Table Mountain, top of Fountain Ravine, Compton 6588;
Constantiaberg, in rock gully on southern slope, Esterhuysen 28650a;
Constantiaberg, near cave, Wolley-Dod 3450 ;
Easy to recognize among the three Peninsula Honeybush species as having flat leaves. It is not known if it is a resprouter or single stemmed, but the lack of recent sightings, suggests it comes up from a seedbank after fires, and reproduces and vanishes. This needs to be confirmed.
Most of the Back Table is over 50 years old, but Fountain Ravine burned in 2022, so should be surveyed in 2025.
Known as Boertee, so presumably was harvested - or at least used casually - for tea.
The other two Peninsula species are
• C. galioides Peninsula Honeybush - olive leaves, branches hairy: Jan-May; resprouter: everywhere - Also Peninsula Endemic
( easily identified by the presence of long villous trichomes on the leaves and stems, as well as the glabrous and distinctly long, apiculate calyx lobes)
= C. capensis - Feb-Apr; resprouter: Red Hill & s. This A&S species was sunk by Vlok.
• C. genistoides Sandveld Honeybush - Jul-Dec; resprouter: everywhere
(It is generally recognized by the long falcate, apiculate calyx lobes and the hairless stems and leaves)
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False Heath: Audouinia-capitata
details here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/audouinia-capitata-false-heath
• Cyclopia latifolia: Table Mountain Honeybush
Not seen for a long time. Peninsula Endemic
(has a shortly beaked keel with a long pocket) Flowers Sept-Oct.
Localities:
Cape Town: Table Mountain, eastern side, Esterhuysen 4014;
TM: Waai Vley, Wolley-Dod 3399 (presumably near Waaikop).
Table Mountain, top of Fountain Ravine, Compton 6588;
Constantiaberg, in rock gully on southern slope, Esterhuysen 28650a;
Constantiaberg, near cave, Wolley-Dod 3450 ;
Easy to recognize among the three Peninsula Honeybush species as having flat leaves. It is not known if it is a resprouter or single stemmed, but the lack of recent sightings, suggests it comes up from a seedbank after fires, and reproduces and vanishes. This needs to be confirmed.
Most of the Back Table is over 50 years old, but Fountain Ravine burned in 2022, so should be surveyed in 2025.
Known as Boertee, so presumably was harvested - or at least used casually - for tea.
The other two Peninsula species are
• C. galioides Peninsula Honeybush - olive leaves, branches hairy: Jan-May; resprouter: everywhere - Also Peninsula Endemic
( easily identified by the presence of long villous trichomes on the leaves and stems, as well as the glabrous and distinctly long, apiculate calyx lobes)
= C. capensis - Feb-Apr; resprouter: Red Hill & s. This A&S species was sunk by Vlok.
• C. genistoides Sandveld Honeybush - Jul-Dec; resprouter: everywhere
(It is generally recognized by the long falcate, apiculate calyx lobes and the hairless stems and leaves)
see: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=123155&taxon_id=139298&view=species
its close relative C. squamosa from Wemmershoek Peak is also on our list - to finish all the Honeybushes onto iNat.
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