Species Daubenya capensis
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Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Daubenya:
For Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny (1795–1867), English botanist, geologist and physician, professor of chemistry and botany at Oxford, Fellow of the Linnaean Society, and plant collector in the US, West Indies and Europe. He was the author of On the Action of Light upon Plants, and of Plants upon the Atmosphere (1836), Sketch of the Geology of North America (1839), Lectures on Roman Husbandry (1857), Climate: an Inquiry into the Causes of its Differences and into its Influence on Vegetable Life (1863), Essay on the Trees and Shrubs of the Ancients, and a Catalogue of the Trees and Shrubs indigenous to Greece and Italy (1865). He conducted plant experiments at the Oxford Botanic Garden. He was a Fellow of the College of Physicians and the Royal Society.
Etymology of capensis:
From the Cape Province of South Africa, previously known as the Cape Colony. -ensis is a Latin adjectival suffix meaning “pertaining to or “originating in,” Thus these organisms were first discovered in the Cape. In the early days of exploration this epithet was frequently applied to anywhere in South Africa or even Southern Africa
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Protologue:
Strelitzia 9: 713 (2000)
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Year published:
2000
Observations of Taxon
Daubenya capensis
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
04/06/2010 - 6:22pm
Collection:
Daubenya capensis
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
17/06/2016 - 2:17pm
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