Species Cliffortia polygonifolia
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There aren’t any identifications of Cliffortia polygonifolia.
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 polygonifolia:
From the Greek ‘polygoni’ / ‘polygon’ meaning ‘polygon’; and the Latin ‘folia’ / ‘folium’ meaning ‘leaf’.
Scientific name:
Cliffortia polygonifolia L.
Common names:
Paddabos
Synonym of:
Unknown
Protologue:
Sp. Pl. 2: 1038 (1753)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1753
Erect, monoecious or dioecious shrub to 1.5 m. Leaves trifoliolate, leaflets flat, pubescent, oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, obtuse to tridentate, 4--7 1--3 mm. Flowers: male: stamens 12; female: receptacle 3--4 mm long, fusiform, glabrous to hairy, 3-winged, wings adpressed to receptacle. Apr.--Nov. Flats and lower slopes, NW, SW (Clanwilliam to Bredasdorp).
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Cliffortia polygonifolia.
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