Species Androcymbium dregei
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Etymology of Androcymbium:
Gk. andro- = male (in botanical language, stamen); kymbium = cup or saucer (La. cymba). The petal limbs enfold the stamens. Common names ‘men-in-a-boat’, ‘cup-and-saucer’.
Etymology of dregei:
Commemorates the brothers Carl Friedrich Drege (1791-1867) and Johann Franz Drege (1794-1881) of Huguenot ancestry. Prodigious botanists and plant collectors in the Cape.’
Scientific name:
Androcymbium dregei C. Presl
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Short-stemmed, cormous geophyte. Leaves sublinear. Flowers 1 or 2, often with aerial pedicels, enclosed by green, leaf-like linear bracts, tepals plane. June--Aug. Sheltered rocky slopes, NW, KM (Namaqualand to Montagu).
Observations of Taxon
Androcymbium dregei
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David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
31/07/2020 - 6:11pm
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Androcymbium dregei
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Barbara Jeppe (David)
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Androcymbium dregei
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David Gwynne-Evans (David)
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21/07/2006 - 5:02pm
Androcymbium dregei
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