Species Cleome montana
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There aren’t any identifications of Cleome montana.
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Cleome:
Cleonia was a plant name used by Dioscorides for a mustard-like plant; possibly from Gk. kleio = I shut. Also used by Theophrastus. The ‘spiderflower’. The original source of this name is unknown.
Etymology of montana:
From the Latin montanus = ‘relating to mountains’
Scientific name:
Cleome montana A. Chev. ex Keay
Synonym of:
Unknown
Long etymology:
Named in honour of Swedish botanist Georg (Goran) Wahlenberg (1780 – 1851). Wahlenberg succeeded Carl Peter Thunberg as chair of Medicine and Botany, the same chair held in the previous century by Carl Linnaeus. Professor of Medicine and Botany at Uppsala University, he studied homeopathy and becoming convinced of its truth, became the first person to introduce homeopathy into Sweden.
Protologue:
Kew Bull. 1953, 287 (1953)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1953
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Cleome montana.