Species Cliffortia uncinata
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There aren’t any identifications of Cliffortia uncinata.
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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 uncinata:
From the Latin uncinatus = ‘furnished with hooks’
Scientific name:
Cliffortia uncinata Weim.
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Erect or trailing, monoecious or dioecious shrublet. Leaves simple, terete, reflexed, uncinate, 10--20 mm long. Flowers: male: stamens 12--15; female: receptacle 3.5--4 mm long, subcylindrical. Sept.--Dec. Rocky sandstone slopes, SW, NW (Cedarberg to Porterville Mts).
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Cliffortia uncinata.