Species Bobartia longicyma
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Location unknown
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Etymology of Bobartia:
For Jacob Bobart (1599–1680), German botanist and the first horti praefectus (superintendent, head gardener) of the Oxford Physic Garden; which cultivated medical herbs; the first garden of its kind in England. He was the author of Catalogus Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis, sci Latino-Anglicus et Anglico-Latinus (1648); a catalogue of 1600 plants that were in the garden. His son, Jacob Bobart the Younger (1641–1719), succeeded his father as horti praefectus and became acting professor of botany at Oxford.
Etymology of longicyma:
From the Latin longus = 'long' and cyma = 'a cluster of flowers'
Scientific name:
Bobartia longicyma J. B. Gillett
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Synonym status:
Robust rhizomatous perennial to 1.8 m. Leaves terete. Flowers in an inflorescence of 2--20 long cymes, yellow. Capsule obovoid, 10--20 mm. Aug.--Dec. Sandy flats and lower slopes, SW, AP (Kuilsrivier to Potberg).
Observations of Taxon
Bobartia longicyma
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
10/11/2007 - 3:40pm
Collection:
Bobartia longicyma
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
06/08/2009 - 5:17pm
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