Species Babiana montana
Pictures from Observations
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Babiana:
Unusual among South African plants in the name being derived from the vernacular Dutch, "baviaantjie", Afrikaans "bobbejaantjie" or its Cape corruption "babiaantjie". The baboon, bobbejaan, is partial to the corms.
Etymology of montana:
From the Latin montanus = ‘relating to mountains’
Scientific name:
Unknown
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
Babiana montana
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
18/08/2007 - 2:07pm
Collection:
Babiana montana
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
04/09/2005 - 2:50am
Collection:
Babiana montana
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
06/08/2006 - 2:44pm
Collection:
Babiana montana
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
06/08/2006 - 4:54pm
Collection:
Babiana montana
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
11/08/2007 - 2:47pm
Collection: