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Taxonomy term
Sarcocaulon
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Gk. sarx, sarkos (sarco) = flesh; kaulon = stem; referring to the fleshy appearance of the stem.
Senecio
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La. senex = an old man. The white, hairy pappus of the seeds is reminiscent of an old man’s beard.
Stapelia
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For Johannes Bodaeus van Stapel (1602–1636), Dutch physician and botanist. He received a medical degree in 1625 from Leiden University and studied botany under Adolphus Vorstius. His life’s ambition was to publish an annotated edition of the botanical works of Theophrastus (370–287 BCE), but he died before the book was finished. The content was edited and published by his father as Theophrasti Eresii de Historia Plantarum in 1644. One of the plants in the book, drawn by Justus Heurnius (1587–1653) from his brief stay at the Cape in 1624, was Fritillaria crassa (Stapelia variegata), now known as Orbea variegata. The genus was named Stapelia in 1753 by Linnaeus in his Species Plantarum.
Trachyandra
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Gk. trachys = rough; andros = male. The thick filaments are usually hairy.
Tylecodon
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Anagram of Cotyledon, in which genus the species were previously placed.
Ursinia
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Named in honour of Johann Ursinus of Regensburg, the author of Arboretum Biblicum. Sphenogyne R.Br. is not considered separable.
Zaluzianskya
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For Adam Zalusiansky von Zaluzian (1558–1613), Bohemian botanist and physician, lecturer and administrator at Charles University in Prague, author of Methodus Herbariae Libri Tres (1592). He was the first man to argue for the separation of botany from medicine, and for a universal classification of plants years before Linnaeus. He stated (in translation): ‘It is customary to connect medicine with botany, yet scientific treatment demands that we should consider each separately. For the fact is that in every art, theory must be disconnected and separated from practice, and the two must be dealt with singly and individually in their proper order before they are united. And for that reason, in order that botany (which is, as it were, a special branch of physics) may form a unit by itself before it can be brought into connection with other sciences, it must be divided and unyoked from medicine.’ Quotation from Herbals: Their Origin and Evolution (Agnes Arbe).
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