Species Apicra jacobseniana
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There aren’t any identifications of Apicra jacobseniana.
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Etymology of Apicra:
Gk. a- = without; picros = sharp, bitter in taste. The sap of this plant is not bitter, like most aloes.
Etymology of jacobseniana:
Named after either Werner Bahne Georg Jacobsen (1909-1995), a German geologist and geobotanist at the eniversities of Berlin, Graz, Leoben (Austria) and Munich. His main interest was in the ferns and published The ferns and fern allies of southern Africa (1983). Collected around 5500 specimens, most of which were destroyed in the Berlin fire. Or named after Niels Henning Günther Jacobsen (1941-). A German ecologist and herpetologist who mainly collected plants (around 4000 specimens) mainly from Zimbabwe and Transvaal.
Scientific name:
Apicra jacobseniana Poelln.
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Protologue:
Succulenta 21: 29 (1939)
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Year published:
1939
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Apicra jacobseniana.