Species Zornia capensis
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There aren’t any identifications of Zornia capensis.
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Etymology of Zornia:
For Johannes Zorn (1739–1799), German pharmacist and botanist, who travelled all over Europe searching for medicinal plants. After studying pharmacy, he became an apothecary in his home town of Kempten, Bavaria. In Nurnberg, between 1779 and 1784, he published Icones Plantarum Medicinalium (Images of Medicinal Plants), illustrated with 500 hand-coloured engravings, expanded to 600 engravings in his second edition (1799). He was also passionate about the plants of the New World, and published a flora of America in 1786 called Drey Hundert Auserlesene Amerikanische Gewachse (300 Select American Plants), based on a very rare book (there were only three coloured copies) by NJ Jacquin, Selectarum Stirpium Americanarum Historia (1763).
Etymology of capensis:
From the Cape Province of South Africa, previously known as the Cape Colony. -ensis is a Latin adjectival suffix meaning “pertaining to or “originating in,” Thus these organisms were first discovered in the Cape. In the early days of exploration this epithet was frequently applied to anywhere in South Africa or even Southern Africa
Scientific name:
Zornia capensis Pers.
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Syn. Pl. (Persoon) 2[2]: 318 (1807)
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Year published:
1807
Slender, wiry, glandular-punctate subshrub. Leaves 2- or 4-foliolate, leaflets elliptic; stipules leafy, peltate. Flowers in interrupted spikes, concealed by large, peltate bracts, yellow. Pods segmented and fragmenting, reticulate-tuberculate. Nov.--Feb. Grassland, 400--1000 m, SE (Knysna to Mpumalanga).
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Zornia capensis.
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