Species Nelia meyeri
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Etymology of Nelia:
For Gert Cornelius Nel (1885–1950), South African botanist, plant collector and cactus specialist, and professor of botany at Stellenbosch University, 1921–1950. He studied in Stellenbosch before moving to Germany, where he studied chemistry and obtained a PhD from Berlin University under Adolf Engler in 1914. He had a special interest in succulent plants, especially Stapelieae, Euphorbias and Mesems. He collected extensively in the drier parts of South Africa and took responsibility for the university garden. He produced an illustrated volume on Lithops (undated) and one on Gibbaeum (1953), edited by PG Jordaan.
Etymology of meyeri:
Named after Louis Gottlieb Meyer (1867–1958), a German born missionary. Meyer frequently collected plants, especially around Namaqualand; or after Heinrich Meyer (1861–1886), a doctor who mainly collected plants around the Hantamsberg, Calvinia and Niewoudtville, specimens of which were sent to Berlin; or after Helmut Ernst Meyer (1908–1995), a student of Herre's who also collected many plants in the Namaqualand area.
Scientific name:
Nelia meyeri Schwantes
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Long etymology:
Louis Meyer Initially trained as an agriculturalist; arrived in South Africa as missionary on 7 Nov. 1894 to practise in Namaqualand, firstly at Kommagas and later at Steinkopf, which also included the Richtersveld. Interested in natural history, especially plants, since childhood, his mission station became headquarters to Marloth on the latter’s visits to Namaqualand, and they sometimes collected together. Meyer also sent plants collected on his own to Marloth and to Herre (q.v.), and insects to Dr H.K.C. Andreae (q.v.) which are at present housed in the South African Museum. Interned at Pietermaritzburg for a time during World War I. After his retirement he settled in Stellenbosch, where he died and was buried.
Protologue:
Gartenflora lxxvii. 129 (1928)
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Year published:
1928
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