Species Brunia levisanus
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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 levisanus:
Named after the Rev. George Lewis who in 1698 sent plants from Madras and the Cape to Petiver. Petiver initially proposed the genus Lewisanus that eventually became the specific epithet levisanus
Scientific name:
Brunia levisanus L.
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Protologue:
Sp. Pl. 1: 199 (1753)
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Year published:
1753
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Brunia levisanus.
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