Species Lidbeckia vlokii
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There aren’t any identifications of Lidbeckia vlokii.
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Lidbeckia:
For Professor Erik Gustavus Lidbeck (1724–1803), Swedish naturalist and botanist. He studied under Linnaeus at Uppsala University, who appointed him his personal secretary (1746). Lidbeck was Linnaeus’s only companion and secretary on his travels in Västergötland (a Swedish province). Subsequently, he was appointed associate professor of economics and natural history at Uppsala (1748), a lecturer in medicine at Lund University (1750), where he also became professor of natural history (1756), acting director of the botanical gardens (1772) (where he planted 50 000 mulberry trees produced silk) and professor of economics (1786). He was made a member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1755.
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Unknown
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Twiggy, thinly velvety shrub to 50 cm. Leaves 3--5-pinnatisect, the lobes linear. Flower heads radiate, solitary on long peduncles, white with yellow disc. Mar.--May. Dry stony lower slopes, LB (Langeberg Mts to Mossel Bay).
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Lidbeckia vlokii.