Species Disa pulchra × montana
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There aren’t any identifications of Disa pulchra × montana.
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Disa:
Origin obscure. Börge Pettison believes the plant was named after Queen Disa who occurs in a Swedish legendary saga. The author, Peter Jonas Bergius, was a Swedish botanist.
Etymology of pulchra:
From the Latin montanus = ‘relating to mountains’
Scientific name:
Disa pulchra Sond. × montana Sond.
Synonym of:
Unknown
Long etymology:
Named in honour of Swedish botanist Georg (Goran) Wahlenberg (1780 – 1851). Wahlenberg succeeded Carl Peter Thunberg as chair of Medicine and Botany, the same chair held in the previous century by Carl Linnaeus. Professor of Medicine and Botany at Uppsala University, he studied homeopathy and becoming convinced of its truth, became the first person to introduce homeopathy into Sweden.
Synonym status:
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Disa pulchra × montana.
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