Species Brunia nodiflora
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Etymology of Brunia:
For Alexander Brown (f 1692–1698), a naval surgeon and plant collector who worked for the East India Company around 1690 and collected in India, the Cape, Spain and Arabia, etc. sending specimens to Plukenet (1641–1706), an English botanist, royal professor of botany and gardener to Queen Mary; James Petiver (c 1665–1718) a London apothecary; Jacob Bobart (c 1665–1718) in Oxford and to Charles du Bois (1656–1740), an English merchant and botanist, treasurer of the East India Company. He amassed a vast herbarium of East Indian plants. No further details are known.
Etymology of nodiflora:
From the Latin nodus = ‘knot’; and the Latin flora = ‘flower’.
Scientific name:
Brunia nodiflora L.
Common names:
Fonteinbos
Stompie
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Closely leafy rounded shrub to 1.5 m, coppicing from a woody caudex, with minutely pubescent branches. Leaves lanceolate, adpressed, 2--3 mm long, imbricate, cuneate. Flowers in dense globose, terminal heads loosely clustered in corymbs, white, with white villous bracts. Mainly Mar.--June. Rocky sandstone slopes, NW, SW, KM, LB, SW, SE (Olifants River Mts to Vanstaden's Mts).
Observations of Taxon
Brunia nodiflora
Name of observer:
Pauline Bohnen (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Brunia nodiflora
Name of observer:
Yvette van Wijk (Yvette)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
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