Species Ammannia latifolia
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There aren’t any identifications of Ammannia latifolia.
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Ammannia:
For Paul Ammann (1634–1691), German physician and botanist, who studied medicine at the University of Leipzig and received his doctorate in physics in (1662). He held three chairs in his career, becoming professor of medicine (1664), of botany (1674) (when he was also director of the medical garden), and of physiology (1682). He authored Supellex Botanica in 1675, an enumeration of the medical plants in the garden and others in the vicinity. He also produced Medecina Critica (1670), Paraenesis ad Docentes Occupata Circa Institutionum Medicarum Emendationem (1673), Irenicum Numae Pompilii cum Hippocrate (1689), and Character Naturalis Plantarum (1676).
Etymology of latifolia:
From the Latin lati / latus meaning ‘wide’; and folius meaning ‘leaf’; i.e. the plant is broad-leafed
Scientific name:
Ammannia latifolia L.
Synonym of:
Unknown
Long etymology:
Protologue:
Sp. Pl. 1: 119 (1753)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1753
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Ammannia latifolia.