Species Rafnia perfoliata
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Etymology of Rafnia:
For Carl (Karl) Gottlob Rafn (1769–1808), Danish civil servant, botanist and science writer. He studied medicine and botany at the University of Copenhagen in 1788, and later veterinary science, but did not take the exams. He had a range of jobs such as an agriculture assessor and director of a distillery, but his main interests were natural history and science. He authored or co-authored a range of publications, including the Flora of Denmarks and Holstein, a book on plant physiology (1798), a paper on animal hibernation with JD Herholdt, and a book on life-saving measures for drowning persons. He became a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences in 1798.
Etymology of perfoliata:
From the Latin per = 'through' and foliatus = 'leaf'; the stem passes through the leaf
Scientific name:
Rafnia perfoliata (Thunb.) E. Mey.
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Protologue:
Comm. Pl. Afr. Austr. 12 (1836)
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Year published:
1836
Prostrate, trailing shrublet to 30 cm and 1 m diam. Leaves unifolialate, opposite on flowering branches, leaves cordate to oblong-cordate, reticulately veined, often clasping. Flowers solitary, keel rostrate, calyx lobes as long as or much longer than the tube, upper lobes broader and falcate. Pods oblong, upper margin convex. Sept.--Apr. Stony slopes, 50--1 250 m, NW, SW, AP (Cedarberg to Bredasdorp Mts).
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