Species Cliffortia graminea
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There aren’t any identifications of Cliffortia graminea.
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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 graminea:
From the Latin gramineus = ‘grassy’
Scientific name:
Cliffortia graminea L. f.
Common names:
Vleirooigras
Wilde-Ertjie
Synonym of:
Unknown
Long etymology:
Synonym status:
Sprawling, monoecious or dioecious shrub to 2 m. Leaves simple, grasslike with clasping sheath 30--60 mm long, stipules narrowly triangular, 4--10 mm long, leaf blade linear-lanceolate, 50--150 3--6 mm. Flowers: male: stamens c. 30; female: receptacle 4--5 mm long, oblong, greenish, sulcate. Aug.--Mar. Damp flats and slopes, NW, SW, LB, SE (Grootwinterhoek Mts to Port Elizabeth).
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There aren’t any identifications of Cliffortia graminea.
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