Species Acalypha sonderiana
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Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Acalypha:
Gk. akalephe = a nettle or its sting. The leaves of some species are nettle-like, resembling those of Urtica, the true nettle.
Etymology of sonderiana:
For Otto Wilhelm Sonder (1812–1881), German botanist and pharmacist, practising in Hamburg. He accumulated an enormous private herbarium in excess of 250 000 specimens from some of the leading botanists and collectors of his day.
Scientific name:
Unknown
Synonym of:
Unknown
Long etymology:
He had a special interest in algae, and wrote an algal supplement to Mueller’s Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae and a major paper on Australian tropical algae. Although he never actually visited the Cape, he co-authored with William Henry Harvey the first three volumes of the seven-volume Flora Capensis. He also wrote Flora Hamburgensis, and was editor and author of several families of Plantae Muellerianae in the journal Linnaea.
Protologue:
Linnaea 34: 9 (1865)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1865
Observations of Taxon
Acalypha sonderiana
Name of observer:
Richard Boon (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
