Species Dioscorea montana
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There aren’t any identifications of Dioscorea montana.
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Dioscorea:
For Pedanius Dioscorides, (c 40–90) Greek physician, whose Materia Medica, circulated in Latin, Greek, and Arabic, was the leading work of its kind throughout the Middle Ages and remains a major source of historical information relating to medicines used by the Greeks, Romans and other cultures.
Etymology of montana:
From the Latin montanus = ‘relating to mountains’
Scientific name:
Dioscorea montana (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Spreng.
Synonym of:
Unknown
Long etymology:
Named in honour of Swedish botanist Georg (Goran) Wahlenberg (1780 – 1851). Wahlenberg succeeded Carl Peter Thunberg as chair of Medicine and Botany, the same chair held in the previous century by Carl Linnaeus. Professor of Medicine and Botany at Uppsala University, he studied homeopathy and becoming convinced of its truth, became the first person to introduce homeopathy into Sweden.
Synonym status:
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Dioscorea montana.