Species Blaeria thunbergii
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Etymology of Blaeria:
For Patrick Blair, MD, FRS (1666–1728), Scottish physician, surgeon and medico-botanical author, who practiced in Dundee, London and Boston. His three major publications were Osteographia Elephantina (1713), in which he describes his dissection of an elephant and anatomical findings; An Account of the Dissection of a Child (1717), in which he described a child who had pyloric stenosis; and Practice of Physick, Anatomy, and Surgery (1718). In 1720 he gave a lecture on the sexual characteristics and fertilisation of the plant, which caught the attention of Linnaeus. He was elected a member of the Royal Society. During the Jacobite Rising of 1715, he was arrested, thrown into prison and sentenced to death. As a result of the intercession of Hans Sloane, Richard Mead and others, he was eventually pardoned.
Etymology of thunbergii:
For Carl Pehr (Peter) Thunberg (1743–1828), Swedish botanist, physician, student of Linnaeus, professor of botany and medicine at Uppsala University (1784–1828) who visited the Cape from 1772–1775 to study the Cape’s flora.
Scientific name:
Blaeria thunbergii G. Don
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Thunberg did extensive botanical exploration in the southern Cape where no botanical collecting had been done, amassing some 3 100 species. In 1775 he went to Japan, Java and Sri Lanka for 15 months. Thunberg published Flora Japonica (1784), his travel diaries (1788–1796), and Flora Capensis (in parts between 1807–1820). He presented his herbarium of 23 510 specimens and 25 000 insects to Uppsala University. He was made a knight of the Royal Order and received many honours.
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There aren’t any identifications of Blaeria thunbergii.
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