Species Brunia schlechteri
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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 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:
Brunia schlechteri (Dummer) Class.-Bockh. & E.G.H. Oliv.
Localities:
Synonym of:
Unknown
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:
Taxon 60(4): 1151 (2011)
Synonym status:
Year published:
2011
Observations of Taxon
Brunia schlechteri
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
23/03/2016 - 1:07pm