Species Abildgaardia densa
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There aren’t any identifications of Abildgaardia densa.
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Abildgaardia:
For Peder Christian Abildgaard (1740–1801), Danish zoologist and veterinarian. He dropped out of secondary school for financial reasons and worked in a pharmacy for five years where he learned chemistry. Thereafter, he studied medicine at the University of Copenhagen obtaining his doctorate in 1768. In 1773 he started his own veterinary college and became the director of the Royal Veterinary College at Christianshavn and through his work obtained the deserving title of ‘father of Danish veterinary science’. During his career he published many works on medicine and zoology with his main interest being natural history, mainly dealing with intestinal parasites, leeches and protozoans. He was the author of Historia Brevis Regii Instituti Veterinarii Hafniensis (1788), founder of The Natural History Society (1789) and was the first researcher to describe the mineral species Cryolite from specimens brought back from Greenland.
Etymology of densa:
From the Latin densus = 'thick' or 'dense'; this may refer to the arrangement of organs like flowers or leaves that are dense and plentiful, or the plants themselves that are frequent in the landscape
Scientific name:
Abildgaardia densa (Wall.) Lye
Synonym of:
Unknown
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Protologue:
Bot. Not. 127(4): 496 (1974)
Synonym status:
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Abildgaardia densa.