Species Ehrharta erecta
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Etymology of Ehrharta:
For Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742–1795), Swiss-born German botanist and naturalist. He studied botany at Uppsala University (1773–1775) under the guidance of Linnaeus, before returning to Hanover where Linnaeus’s son was director of the Botanical Garden. Ehrhart was one of the first botanists to publish exsiccatae (= plant collections, precisely identified, named and labeled), for various botanists or institutions. From 1780–1793 he produced seven series of these exsiccatae, each of about 1 620 species. He also had his own general collection (Hortus siccus) of about 3 300 plant species. A set of these collections are kept in the herbarium of Moscow University. He was supposedly the first person to use the rank of subspecies in botanical nomenclature.
Etymology of erecta:
From the Latin erectus = 'upright'
Scientific name:
Ehrharta erecta Lam.
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Protologue:
Encycl. (Lamarck) 2(1): 347 (1786)
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Year published:
1786
Sprawling or tufted perennial or annual to 80 cm. Leaf blades flat, with wavy margins. Spikelets in an open panicle, green, glumes shorter than spikelet, sterile lemmas corrugate, glabrous, blunt to mucronate, the second slightly constricted basally. Mainly Sept.--Jan. Shady habitats, often weedy, SW, AP, LB, SE (Cape Peninsula to E Africa).
Observations of Taxon
Ehrharta erecta
Name of observer:
Anne Bean & Amida Johns (David)
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Ehrharta erecta
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Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
05/12/2016 - 4:22pm
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Ehrharta erecta
Name of observer:
Jan Vlok (KarooJan)
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Date observed unknown
Ehrharta erecta
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Guthrie Herbarium (David)
Date observed:
05/12/2016 - 6:22pm
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