Species Faucaria montana
Pictures from Observations
There aren’t any identifications of Faucaria montana.
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Faucaria:
La. fauces = jaws, throat; -aria = denotes possession or relation to. The leaf-pairs resemble the open jaws of some mythical beast.
Etymology of montana:
From the Latin montanus = ‘relating to mountains’
Scientific name:
Faucaria 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:
Notes Mesembryanthemum 2: 448 (1934)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1934
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Faucaria montana.