Species Cliffortia filicaulis
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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 filicaulis:
From the Latin fili = 'thread-like' and caulis = 'stem'; referring to a thin stem
Scientific name:
Cliffortia filicaulis Schltdl.
Common names:
Synonym of:
Unknown
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Protologue:
Linnaea 2: 33 (1827)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1827
Sprawling or erect monoecious or dioecious shrublet. Leaves trifoliolate, stipules large and leaf-like, leaflets flat, hairy, central leaflet 2--4 2--3 mm, obcordate to obovate, apex trilobed, lateral leaflets 2--4 1--3 mm, obtuse. Flowers: male: sepals 4, stamens 8; female: sepals 4, receptacle ovoid, 1--1.5 mm long. Aug.--Dec. Lower sandstone slopes, SW, LB, SE (Cape Peninsula to Humansdorp).
Observations of Taxon
Cliffortia filicaulis
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
22/01/2015 - 7:32pm
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