The first record of this species was an account in the diary of Simon van der Stel (the first Governor of the Cape), when he travelled in 1685 to Namaqualand in the Northern Cape.
It is named after Simon van der Stel, first governor of the Cape and founder and namesake of Stellenbosch.
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