Species Syncarpha montana
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Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Syncarpha:
Gk. syn- = together; karphos = a dry stalk, scale; possibly referring to the dry bracts that are united into a cone-like structure.
Etymology of montana:
From the Latin montanus = ‘relating to mountains’
Scientific name:
Unknown
Synonym of:
Unknown
Long etymology:
Named in honour of Swedish botanist Georg (Goran) Wahlenberg (1780 – 1851). Wahlenberg succeeded Carl Peter Thunberg as chair of Medicine and Botany, the same chair held in the previous century by Carl Linnaeus. Professor of Medicine and Botany at Uppsala University, he studied homeopathy and becoming convinced of its truth, became the first person to introduce homeopathy into Sweden.
Protologue:
Compositae Newslett. 17: 5 (1989)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1989
Observations of Taxon
Syncarpha montana
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
23/12/2006 - 10:26am
Collection: