Species Boehmeria capensis
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There aren’t any identifications of Boehmeria capensis.
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Etymology of Boehmeria:
For Georg(e) Rudolf Boehmer (Böhmer) (1723–1803), German physician and botanist, who studied at the University of Leipzig before becoming professor of botany and anatomy at the University of Wittenberg in 1752. Later he became professor of therapy. While working at the university he had part-time duties as city physician for Wittenberg and later at Kemberg. He authored many works, systematically recording the history of botany including his five-volume Library of Natural History (1785–1789), Lexicon of Things in Herbarium, Technical History of Plants, Systematic and Literary Handbook of Natural History, and Economics and Related Sciences and Arts.
Etymology of capensis:
From the Cape Province of South Africa, previously known as the Cape Colony. -ensis is a Latin adjectival suffix meaning “pertaining to or “originating in,” Thus these organisms were first discovered in the Cape. In the early days of exploration this epithet was frequently applied to anywhere in South Africa or even Southern Africa
Scientific name:
Boehmeria capensis (Thunb.) Spreng.
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Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Boehmeria capensis.
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