Species Aira montana
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There aren’t any identifications of Aira montana.
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Aira:
Gk. aira = an ancient Greek name for a weed; probably referring to a different European grass, Lolium temulentum, known as poison darnell.
Etymology of montana:
From the Latin montanus = ‘relating to mountains’
Scientific name:
Aira montana L.
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.
Synonym status:
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Aira montana.
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