Species Indigofera guthriei
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There aren’t any identifications of Indigofera guthriei.
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Etymology of Indigofera:
Indigo is derived from the La. indicus, Gk. indikos, referring to India; La. ferax = bearing. Indigo is blue dye (cf I. tinctoria).
Etymology of guthriei:
For Francis Guthrie (1831–1899), English lawyer, mathematician and botanist. He studied at London University, getting a BA degree (1850) and an LLB (1852) before coming to South Africa in 1861 to teach mathematics at Graaff-Reinet College. His extensive collections of flora from the Cape Peninsula are honoured by the Guthrie Herbarium within the Bolus Herbarium at UCT.
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Long etymology:
Francis Guthrie attended lectures by the botanist John Lindley. Guthrie's subsequent lectures inspired Harry Bolus who would later become a celebrated botanist. Bolus named the monotypic genus Guthriea after him after Bolus discovered the plant in the Nardousberg mountains near Graaff-Reinet in 1873. Guthrie and Bolus worked together on the genus Erica, the work being incorporated into Flora Capensis. By his death, Guthrie had accumulated a significant collection of specimens from the Cape Peninsula, and these were bequeathed by his widow to the South African College herbarium.
Protologue:
J. Bot. 22 (1896)
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Year published:
1896
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There aren’t any identifications of Indigofera guthriei.
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