Species Brunia candicans
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There aren’t any identifications of Brunia candicans.
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Brunia:
For Alexander Brown (f 1692–1698), a naval surgeon and plant collector who worked for the East India Company around 1690 and collected in India, the Cape, Spain and Arabia, etc. sending specimens to Plukenet (1641–1706), an English botanist, royal professor of botany and gardener to Queen Mary; James Petiver (c 1665–1718) a London apothecary; Jacob Bobart (c 1665–1718) in Oxford and to Charles du Bois (1656–1740), an English merchant and botanist, treasurer of the East India Company. He amassed a vast herbarium of East Indian plants. No further details are known.
Etymology of candicans:
From the Latin candicans meaning "increasing in glow / whitening".
Scientific name:
Brunia candicans Steud.
Synonym of:
Unknown
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Protologue:
Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2 (Steudel) 1: 231 (1840)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1840
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Brunia candicans.