E. villiersii
Try’n catch last of the flowers if they are still at it and decent capsules on this trip

E. distans
Cedarberg
(Bracteoles at a distance from the calyx, calyx smooth)
Could that plant of mine (three piccies from Cedarberg) be a very weird gracilis..I’m thinking this as it has a clear pedicel which my piccies show. Leave out????

E. oxysepala
Get in contact with Richard at Honingklip and do his 4x4 route as I’m sure well find poxyschmepala there

E. babiloniae
Do the Karwyderskraal rd again in the hope of it not being flooded this time

E. steytlerae
While we are round the Kleinmond area get Louis Mostert to show us where they all are…he’s a local and he knows them

E. heteropetala
Kanonkop Did you ever get in touch with Mishy and go up there? You went up Paardeberg???…they’re not the same???? I need to learn all the bergies names sigh sigh

E. promontorii
Get iSpotters to embark on “the great E promontorii quest” look along the coast from Sea Point to Cape Point ITS GOTTA be there. Ask the Tony to organise entry into Cape Point…JUSTIN

E. dunensis
Cape Point while we are there get it. Otherwise the Cape Town film studio lot or Wolfgat. I want capsules to examine at leisure

E. saturata
I’ll check in the herbaria to see if any of the specimens have capsules on them that I can photograph

E. aspera
Ditto as above

E. aperta
North of Bree River
Shrubsto 15cm h,often cushion-shaped; Leaves < 5cm; Flrs single or in small cymes, raised above the plant, bracteoles distant from smooth calyx, petals spatulate, purple, filamentous staminodes pale yellow, smooth, not covering the interior of the flower completely, Fr with short covering membranes, valve wings as awns, Ceres, Montagu, Worcester,
The rare combination of smooth calyx with distant bracteoles separates it from the other two high mountain species
Ive gone through the stuff on ispot and yes I think Nicks plant on iSpot might be aperta…initially the capsules looked too way out for Erepsia as the covering membranes are so small that Hartmann would have mentioned it resembling Delosperma ….just didn’t think they were that small almost like a Delosperma. This is where a decent publication showing the capsules and flowers is megahelpful!

E. esterhuyseniae
E. esterhuyseniae has a calyx that is tuberculate
S of the Bree River
Shrubs to 15cm h, branching from the base, only later forming a cushion; L 0 < 5 mm; Fl mostly single, raised above the plant, Calyx tuberculate, petals purple, spatulate, merging into whitish filamentous staminodes, the outer apically red, sparsely papillate, Fr valve wings absent, but expanding keels extended into awns, covering membranes short, o 4-6 mm. Nick’s plant on iSpot is either this or insignis.

E. insignis
Low shrubs up to 15cm h, I dark, 01-2 mm; L <5mm; Flrs mostly single, terminal, bracteoles directly beneath the calyx, petals purple, merging into filamentous staminodes, stamens whitish, outer erect, inner hanging, Fruit expanding keels produced into awns, diam 6-7 mm, covering membranes short; Paarl,Worcester so N and S of Bree River

E. bracteata
I think this may be the one we found below Babilonstoring but never collected so that would be easy peasy you took piccies ??? and the capsules should be ripe now We get this when we’re in the area for babyloniae

E. hallii
We’ll find this one at Klipberg N of Darling How do we get up there who does it belong to? I supect its also up on all those little bergies along from Atlantis to Darling. A GRANITE species
“Dassenberg Coastal Catchment Partnership” who are they?

E. patula
Check the herbarium specimens first for this one and E. ramosa they may all be muddled but we need to go looking for it Camps Bay, Kloof Nek and on slopes of Table Mountain above Camps Bay, Clifton
“Hartmann’s book says patula only occurs around Piketberg & Vredenburg, but the PRECIS records I have contain almost no records from that region! Theyre all from places like the Peninsula, Stellenbosch, Klipheuwel, and Signal Hill!”
Sigrid’s distribution is also from near Cape Town….but then look how wrong she got the E. brevipetala
I think there may be on or two already on iSpot and we need to sit together and discuss this

E. ramosa A SHALE species (NE of CT ). There might be a few of this thing on iSpot already we need to sit together and figure out if they were on shale --Tony I think you took some piccs

E. gracilis
??? (long pedicel) we can look out for it in our travels as they are widespread – only problem…FIRE! They’re only a fire successor species

E. forficata
Don’t know if it”ll be flowering now but we can find that one chop-chop (Myburg Ravine)

E. anceps
?? Big weird taxonomic question

Well that's next weekend's Biohikes sorted!
Look forward to having you back in the Fair Cape.