Species Disa montana
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Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Disa:
Origin obscure. Börge Pettison believes the plant was named after Queen Disa who occurs in a Swedish legendary saga. The author, Peter Jonas Bergius, was a Swedish botanist.
Etymology of montana:
From the Latin montanus = ‘relating to mountains’
Scientific name:
Unknown
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.
Protologue:
Linnaea 19: 90 (1847)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1847
Observations of Taxon
Disa montana
Name of observer:
Elsa Pooley (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Disa montana
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
29/12/2008 - 11:02am
Collection: