Species Cliffortia pulchella
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There aren’t any identifications of Cliffortia pulchella.
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 pulchella:
From the Latin pulchellus meaning ‘beautiful’
Scientific name:
Cliffortia pulchella L. f.
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Synonym of:
Unknown
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Protologue:
Suppl. Pl. 430 (1782)
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Year published:
1782
Monoecious or dioecious shrublet to 60 cm. Leaves bifoliolate, leaflets flat, reniform to orbiculate, 5--6 mm long, margins shortly ciliate. Flowers: male: stamens c. 20; female: receptacle ovoid, smooth, c. 3 mm long. Apr.--May. Sandstone slopes, LB (Langeberg Mts).
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Cliffortia pulchella.