Species Gorteria personata
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Etymology of Gorteria:
For David de Gorter (1717–1783), Dutch botanist, physician, plant collector, professor of medicine at the University of Harderwijk, where he also studied, and possibly also for his father, Johannes de Gorter (1689–1762), professor of medicine at Harderwijk from 1725–1754. De Gorter Jr graduated in 1734. In 1735 Linnaeus came to Harderwijk where he obtained his PhD (under De Gorter Sr). A friendship sprang up between the younger De Gorter and Linnaeus. Together they made collecting trips around Harderwijk, with De Gorter subsequently authoring one of the first floras to use Linnaeus’s form of binomial nomenclature, Flora Belgica (1767). After retiring from the university, De Gorter became chief physician at the court of Elizabeth (Elizaveta Petrovna), Empress of Russia, succeeded by his son.
Etymology of personata:
From the Latin ‘personata’ / ‘personata’ meaning ‘the plant called burdock’
Scientific name:
Gorteria personata L.
Common names:
Klitskriud
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Synonym of:
Unknown
Protologue:
Syst. Nat., ed. 10 2: 1229 (1759)
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Year published:
1759
Roughly hairy, sprawling annual to 10 cm. Leaves oblanceolate, sometimes pinnatifid, margins revolute, roughly hairy above, white-felted below. Flower heads radiate, solitary at branch tips, yellow with greenish reverse, bracts glabrous above, pungent, longer than the rays. Aug.--Oct. Rocky or sandy flats and lower slopes, NW, SW, AP, LB, SE (Bokkeveld Mts to Humansdorp).
Observations of Taxon
Gorteria personata
Name of observer:
Riaan de Villiers (David)
Date observed:
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Gorteria personata subsp. gracilis
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Pauline Bohnen (David)
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Gorteria personata
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Lynda de Wet (David)
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Collection:
Gorteria personata
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Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
20/08/2016 - 12:16pm
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