Species Brunia staavioides
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There aren’t any identifications of Brunia staavioides.
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 staavioides:
From the Latin -ioides denoting resemblance due to the similarity to the genus Staavia (Bruniaceae)
Scientific name:
Brunia staavioides Sond.
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Protologue:
Fl. Cap. 2: 316 (1862)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1862
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Brunia staavioides.