Species Cullumia aculeata
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Location unknown
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Etymology of Cullumia:
For Sir John Cullum (1733–1785), British botanist, geneologist, antiquarian, cleric and scholar, and author of History and Antiquities of Hawstead (1785), and his brother, Sir Thomas Gery Cullum (1741–1831), a medical practitioner, surgeon and botanist, member of the Linnaean Society, and author of Floræ Anglicæ Specimen imperfectum et ineditum (1774). Both became fellows of the Royal Society.
Etymology of aculeata:
From the Latin ‘aculeata’ / ‘aculeatus’ meaning ‘prickly’
Scientific name:
Cullumia aculeata (Houtt.) Roessler
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Unknown
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Protologue:
Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. München 3: 291 (1959)
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Year published:
1959
Prickly, erect, densely leafy shrub to 1 m, often thinly cobwebby. Leaves ascending, oblanceolate, decurrent, margins revolute, bristly in two unequal rows, lightly pungent. Flower heads radiate, small, pale yellow, solitary at the branch tips, inner bracts unarmed. Mainly Sept.--Mar. Dry sandstone slopes, LB, SE (Langeberg Mts: Garcia's Pass to George).
Observations of Taxon
Cullumia aculeata
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Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
14/04/2017 - 11:34am
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