Species Dovea marlothii
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There aren’t any identifications of Dovea marlothii.
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Etymology of Dovea:
For Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (1803–1879), Prussian meteorologist and physicist, a professor at the University of Königsberg, director of the Prussian Meteorological Institute. He was an associate professor at the University of Königsberg, an associate professor at the University of Berlin, and then a full professor at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität. He was also the director of the Prussian Meteorological Institute and studied the effect of climate on the growth of plants. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences; and has a crater on the moon named after him.
Etymology of marlothii:
Named after Hermann Wilhelm Rudolf Marloth (1855-1931), a German-born pharmacist, analytical chemist and botanist who collected plants in Namibia in 1886, discovering over 100 new species. A brilliant naturalist who translated his insightful observations together with art in his seminal Flora of South Africa.
Scientific name:
Dovea marlothii Pillans
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Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Dovea marlothii.