Species Nuxia schlechteri
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There aren’t any identifications of Nuxia schlechteri.
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 schlechteri:
Named in honour of the German Rudolf Schlecter (1872-1925) and his brother Max (1874-1960), renowned plant collectors from South Africa.
Scientific name:
Nuxia schlechteri Gilg
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Long etymology:
Rudolf made more than 12 000 collections. His brother Max settled in Port Nolloth where he earned his living collecting and trading
Protologue:
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 32: 140 (1902)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1902
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Nuxia schlechteri.