Species Rafnia racemosa
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There aren’t any identifications of Rafnia racemosa.
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Location unknown
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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 racemosa:
From the Latin ‘racemosa’ / ‘racemosus’ meaning ‘clustered’
Scientific name:
Rafnia racemosa Eckl. & Zeyh.
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Erect or procumbent, clump-forming shrub or shrublet to 1.5 m. Leaves unifoliolate, alternate on flowering branches, lanceolate to elliptic. Flowers few to 19, wings sculptured, keel rostrate, calyx lobes triangular or narrowly triangular. Pods obliquely lanceolate. Mainly Oct.--Jan. Stony slopes, 300--1 700 m, SW, KM, SE (Worcester to Uniondale).
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Rafnia racemosa.