Species Nebelia sonderiana
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There aren’t any identifications of Nebelia sonderiana.
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Etymology of Nebelia:
For Daniel Nebel (1663–1733) who studied medicine at the University of Marburg, obtaining his PhD in 1686 and becoming a full professor in the medical faculty in 1707. From 1708–1728 he worked as a doctor and apothecary at the Heidelberg hospital and Sapienzkolleg and from 1728 exclusive personal physician of Elector Carl Philip at his court in Mannheim. Also for Nebel’s son William Bernhard Nebel (1699–1748), physician and botanist, professor of mathematics, physics and medicine at Heidelberg. Daniel Nebel, in particular, was a prolific author both in the fields of botany and medicine, and a considerable amount of his work was published posthumously.
Etymology of sonderiana:
For Otto Wilhelm Sonder (1812–1881), German botanist and pharmacist, practising in Hamburg. He accumulated an enormous private herbarium in excess of 250 000 specimens from some of the leading botanists and collectors of his day.
Scientific name:
Nebelia sonderiana Kuntze
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Long etymology:
He had a special interest in algae, and wrote an algal supplement to Mueller’s Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae and a major paper on Australian tropical algae. Although he never actually visited the Cape, he co-authored with William Henry Harvey the first three volumes of the seven-volume Flora Capensis. He also wrote Flora Hamburgensis, and was editor and author of several families of Plantae Muellerianae in the journal Linnaea.
Protologue:
Rev Gen. 233 (1891)
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Year published:
1891
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There aren’t any identifications of Nebelia sonderiana.
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