Species Dyerophytum africanum
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Etymology of Dyerophytum:
For Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (1843–1928), British botanist and third director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He studied mathematics and natural sciences at Oxford, and thereafter held various professorships before taking up a professorship at the Royal Horticultural Society in London in 1872. He became assistant director at Kew in 1875, director in 1885 and retired in 1905. During his tenure he created an international research laboratory at Kew, introduced a new rock garden, and helped Sri Lanka and Malaya develop rubber plantations. He authored an English edition of Julius Sachs’s Text-Book of Botany (1875), editions of the Flora Capensis and of the Flora of Tropical Africa, and Index Kewensis (1905). Gk. phyton = plant.
Etymology of africanum:
From the Latin africanus meaning "from Africa"
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Protologue:
Revis. Gen. Pl. 394 (1891)
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1891
Observations of Taxon
Dyerophytum africanum
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Various (David)
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Dyerophytum africanum
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David Gwynne-Evans (David)
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Dyerophytum africanum
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Mannheimer, Maggs-Kölling, Kolberg or Rügheimer (David)
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Dyerophytum africanum
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Mannheimer, Maggs-Kölling, Kolberg or Rügheimer (David)
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Dyerophytum africanum
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Annelise Le Roux and Zelda Wahl (David)
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