Species Ajuga capensis
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There aren’t any identifications of Ajuga capensis.
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Etymology of Ajuga:
Possibly Gk. a- = without; zygo, zygon (La. jugum) = yoke. Linnaeus imaginatively named it Ajuga, meaning ‘has no ox’s yoke’, because the buds on the spike are not connected. This has been interpreted, variously, as an allusion to the fact that the calyx is not divided and is in fact a single petal, or that the sepals surrounding the buds are not connected, or that this is a reference to the apparently missing upper corolla lip. (Umberto Quattrocchi has suggested that this name could be a corruption of an old Latin name Abiga, applied by Pliny the Elder to another plant.)
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:
Ajuga capensis (Thunb.) Pers.
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Protologue:
Syn. 2: 109 (1807)
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Year published:
1807
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Ajuga capensis.
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