Species Erica montana
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There aren’t any identifications of Erica montana.
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Location unknown
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Etymology of Erica:
Gk. ereike = to break. The name used for a heath by Theophrastus (372–287 BCE) and Pliny the Elder. The stems are brittle and break easily (Lindsay); or possibly but less likely because of the ability of the plant to break up bladder stones (Paxton’s Botanical Dictionary).
Etymology of montana:
From the Latin montanus = ‘relating to mountains’
Scientific name:
Erica montana L. Bolus
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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:
Ann. Bolus Herb. 3: 177 (1924)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1924
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Erica montana.
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