Species Ficinia ludwigii
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There aren’t any identifications of Ficinia ludwigii.
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Ficinia:
For Heinrich David August Ficinus (1782–1857), German physician, naturalist, botanist, professor of physics and chemistry at the medical-surgical academy in Dresden (1814), then was professor of natural history (1817). From 1822 onwards he worked in his father’s pharmacy but also taught chemistry, technology and physics at the Technical Training Institute in Dresden (1828–1833). He wrote several literary works, textbooks and papers in the fields of botany, optics and mineral chemistry. They include Flora of the Area around Dresden (1807), Optics or Attempts to Follow the Right Outline of the Whole Theory of Light (1828), Foundations of Medical Physics, Foundations of Medicinal Chemistry (1815), and General Natural History (1839) (titles translated from German).
Etymology of ludwigii:
Named after Carl Ferdinand Heinrich von Ludwig (1784-1847), a German pharmacist, business man and patron of natural science. In 1826 he went on a collecting trip to Swellendam with Ludwig Beil, a consigment of plants and insects collected which he sent to the Royal Museum at Stuttgart. For this he received a Knighthood of the Order of the Royal Crown of Wurttemburg, earning him the title of Baron. Tubingen university conferred a PhD degree for a later collection of natural science specimens. He acquired land in Kloof Road, Tamboerskloof, Cape Town, and developed a noteworthy botanic garden.
Scientific name:
Ficinia ludwigii Boeckeler
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Unknown
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Protologue:
Flora 65: 15 (1882)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1882
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Ficinia ludwigii.