Species Harveya speciosa
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Etymology of Harveya:
For William Henry Harvey (1811–1866), Irish-born botanist, algologist and pioneer of South African systematic botany, colonial treasurer general of the Cape Colony, keeper of the herbarium at Trinity College, Dublin, professor of botany for the Royal Dublin Society and at Trinity College, Dublin, and Fellow of the Linnaean and Royal societies. He came to the Cape in 1834, aged 23, and stayed about four years. He wrote The Genera of South African Plants (1838), Manual of British Algae (1841), Phycologia Britannica (1846–1851), Phycologia Australica (1858–1863) and was co-author, with Dr OW Sonder of Hamburg, of the first three volumes of Flora Capensis (1860–1865). He collected along the Atlantic coast of the United States and Australia and Tasmania in the South Seas.
Etymology of speciosa:
From the Latin speciosa / speciosus meaning ‘beautiful’
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Protologue:
Flora 27(2): 831 (1844)
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Year published:
1844
Observations of Taxon
Harveya speciosa
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Name of observer:
Auriol Batten (David)
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Harveya speciosa
Name of observer:
Elsa Pooley (David)
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Harveya speciosa
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Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
08/02/2008 - 6:31pm
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Harveya speciosa
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Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
22/01/2012 - 1:04pm
Harveya speciosa
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Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
14/01/2012 - 5:04pm
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