Species Cliffortia grandifolia
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There aren’t any identifications of Cliffortia grandifolia.
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 grandifolia:
From the Latin grandis = 'large' and folius = 'leaf'; referring to the size of the leaf
Scientific name:
Cliffortia grandifolia Eckl. & Zeyh.
Common names:
Grootblaarrysbos
Synonym of:
Unknown
Long etymology:
Protologue:
Enum. Pl. Afric. Austral. 266 (1836)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1836
Monoecious or dioecious shrub or small tree to 5 m. Leaves simple, coarsely dentate, 50--100 15--30 mm. Flowers: male: stamens c. 50; female: unknown. Dec.--Jan. Wooded ravines on sandstone slopes, SW, LB (Dutiot's Kloof to Langeberg Mts).
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There aren’t any identifications of Cliffortia grandifolia.
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