Species Ferraria crispa
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Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Ferraria:
For Giovanni Batista Ferrari (1584–1655), Italian Jesuit, professor of Hebrew and rhetoric at the Jesuit College in Rome, horticultural advisor to the Pope, and author of many illustrated botanical books, including De Florum Cultura in four volumes (1633), a horticultural book emphasising the planning and planting of gardens, and Hesperides sive de Malorum Aureorum cultura (1646), a ‘citrus encyclopedia’. He also wrote a Latin-Syrian dictionary, a series of Orations – treatises on rhetoric, which emphasised good Latin usage, and a book on Sienese saints. He was the first scientist to provide a complete description of the limes, lemons and pomegranates, and their use in preventing scurvy.
Etymology of crispa:
From the Latin ‘crispa’ / ‘crispus’ meaning ‘curled’ or 'finely wavy'
Scientific name:
Ferraria crispa Burm.
Etymology applies to:
Common names:
Krulletjie
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Synonym of:
Unknown
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Synonym status:
Cormous geophyte, 40--100 cm, leafy and much-branched. Leaves sword-shaped. Flowers brown and speckled, anther thecae parallel, . Aug.--Oct. Mainly coastal, sandstone or granite rocks, NW, SW, AP, KM, LB (Lambert's Bay to Mossel Bay, Little Karoo).
Observations of Taxon
Ferraria crispa
Name of observer:
Hilda Mason (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Collection:
Ferraria crispa
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
08/12/2016 - 10:57am
Collection:
Ferraria crispa
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Name of observer:
Mary Maytham Kidd (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Ferraria crispa
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Name of observer:
Amida Johns (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Collection:
Ferraria crispa
Name of observer:
Barbara Jeppe (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown