Species Cliffortia juniperina
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There aren’t any identifications of Cliffortia juniperina.
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 juniperina:
From the resemblance to juniperus, a ‘juniper tree’
Scientific name:
Cliffortia juniperina L. f.
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Protologue:
Suppl. Pl. 430 (1782)
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Year published:
1782
Closely leafy monoecious or dioecious shrub to 1 m, verruculose on the young parts. Leaves trifoliolate, leaflets needle-like, verrucose, 4--10 mm long. Flowers: male: stamens c. 20; female: receptacle brownish green, rugose between the green ribs. Sept.--Mar. Granite and sandstone slopes, NW, SW (Namaqualand to Caledon).
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Cliffortia juniperina.