Species Bridelia schlechteri
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There aren’t any identifications of Bridelia schlechteri.
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Bridelia:
For Samuel Elisée von Bridel (1761–1828), Swiss botanist, bryologist, poet, muscologist and librarian, and author of Bryologia universa. He studied at the University of Lausanne and later went to Gotha (Thuringia, Germany), where hetaught the sovereign’s children, princes August and Friedrich von Sachsen-Gotha. He was one of the foremost bryological leaders of his time, and also published the two-volume work entitled Muscologia recentiorum. Most of his moss herbarium was acquired by the Botanical Museum of Berlin and fortunately escaped destruction during an air raid in World War II.
Etymology of schlechteri:
Named in honour of the German Rudolf Schlecter (1872-1925) and his brother Max (1874-1960), renowned plant collectors from South Africa.
Scientific name:
Bridelia schlechteri Hutch.
Synonym of:
Long etymology:
Rudolf made more than 12 000 collections. His brother Max settled in Port Nolloth where he earned his living collecting and trading
Protologue:
Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 249 (1914)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1914
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Bridelia schlechteri.