Species Erica sparrmanii

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There aren’t any identifications of Erica sparrmanii.

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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 sparrmanii:

For Anders Erikson Sparrman (1748–1820), Swedish botanist and physician, and pupil of Linnaeus who visited the Cape in 1772, where he botanised around Cape Town with Carl Peter Thunberg.

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Unknown

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Unknown

Long etymology:

He visited Canton (1765–1767), completed his medical studies (1770), and joined Captain Cook’s expedition to circumnavigate the world which reached the Cape in 1772. Sparrman was invited to join them. They returned in 1775, and Sparrman spent from July 1775 to April 1776 exploring and collecting in the Eastern Cape. He recorded these experiences in his A Journey to the Cape of Good Hope ... (1777). He was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1777 and was its president from 1778–1785. From 1790–1803, he was professor of natural history and pharmacy at the Royal Collegium Medicum in Stockholm.

Authors:

L. f.

Protologue:

Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Handl. 24. t. 2 (1772)

Synonym status:

Accepted

Year published:

1772