Species Cliffortia ilicifolia
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There aren’t any identifications of Cliffortia ilicifolia.
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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 ilicifolia:
From the Latin ‘ilici’ / ‘ilex’ meaning ‘holly’; and the Latin ‘folia’ / ‘folium’ meaning ‘leaf’.
Scientific name:
Cliffortia ilicifolia L.
Common names:
Doringtee
Jankoensedoring
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Synonym status:
Monoecious or dioecious shrub to 2 m. Leaves simple, ovate, 15--25 mm long, margins coarsely toothed. Flowers: male: stamens c. 40; female: sepals 1.5--2.5 mm, acute, upright, receptacle 7--9 4--5 mm, ovoid, with c. 20 reddish ribs. Mainly Nov.--Dec. Sandstone slopes SW, AP, KM, SE (Cape Peninsula to Port Elizabeth).
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There aren’t any identifications of Cliffortia ilicifolia.
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