Species Cliffortia dregeana
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There aren’t any identifications of Cliffortia dregeana.
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Cliffortia:
For George Clifford (1685–1760), Dutch merchant and banker, amateur botanist and zoologist. He was a director of the Dutch East India Company and owned a magnificent garden at Hartecamp, Netherlands, as well as a private zoo in Amsterdam. George Clifford is best known as a patron of the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus, whom he employed as ‘hortulanus’ and who catalogued the family’s unique collection of plants, herbarium and library. The result was Linnaeus’s 530-page book Hortus Cliffortianus (1738), his first important work, in which he described many species from Clifford’s garden. The publication was paid for by George Clifford as a private edition.
Etymology of dregeana:
Commemorates the brothers Carl Friedrich Drege (1791-1867) and Johann Franz Drege (1794-1881) of Huguenot ancestry. Prodigious botanists and plant collectors in the Cape.’
Scientific name:
Cliffortia dregeana C. Presl
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Protologue:
Abh. Königl. Böhm. Ges. Wiss. ser. 5, 3: 571 (1845); Bot. Bemerk. (C. Presl) 141 (1846)
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Year published:
1845
Monoecious or dioecious shrub to 1 m. Leaves simple, linear-lanceolate, pungent, 15--35 mm long. Flowers: male: stamens c. 40; female: receptacle c. 8 mm long, ovoid, c. 20-ribbed. July--Feb. Sandstone slopes, NW, SW (Cedarberg to Riviersonderend Mts).
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Cliffortia dregeana.