Species Geissorhiza cyanea
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There aren’t any identifications of Geissorhiza cyanea.
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Location unknown
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Etymology of Geissorhiza:
Gk. geisson = title; rhiza = root; alluding to the regular overlapping of the corm tunics in some species.
Etymology of cyanea:
From the Latin cyanea = 'dark blue' or 'sea blue'
Scientific name:
Geissorhiza cyanea Eckl.
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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.
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Protologue:
Topogr. Verz. Pflanzensamml. Ecklon 20
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Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Geissorhiza cyanea.