Species Nuxia floribunda
Pictures from Observations
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Nuxia:
For Jean Baptiste François de Lanux (la Nux) (1702–1772), a French amateur naturalist. He became chief clerk (1725), then commander of Saint-Denis, the administrative capital on Réunion Island (1736). He tried to develop silkworm farming on the island and was interested in all aspects of natural history. He became a correspondent of the Royal Academy of Sciences (1762). Both Mathurin Jacques Brisson (1723–1806), French zoologist (Le Règne Animal, 1756; Ornithologie, 1760) and Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon (1707–1788), French naturalist (Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux, 1771–1786), relied on his detailed descriptions and specimens. He described the now extinct lesser Mascarene flying fox, Pteropus subniger.
Etymology of floribunda:
From the Latin floribundus = 'many flowers'
Scientific name:
Unknown
Synonym of:
Unknown
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Protologue:
Companion Bot. Mag. 2: 59 (1836)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1836
Observations of Taxon
Nuxia floribunda
Name of observer:
Richard Boon (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Nuxia floribunda
Name of observer:
Barbra Jeppe (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown