Species Ficinia schlechteriana
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There aren’t any identifications of Ficinia schlechteriana.
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 schlechteriana:
Named in honour of the German Rudolf Schlecter (1872-1925) and/or his brother Max (1874-1960), renowned plant collectors from South Africa. Rudolf made more than 12 000 collections. His brother Max settled in Port Nolloth where he earned his living collecting and trading
Scientific name:
Ficinia schlechteriana H. Pfeiff.
Synonym of:
Unknown
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Protologue:
Herbarium, No. 54, 33 (1920).
Synonym status:
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Ficinia schlechteriana.