Species Haworthia jacobseniana
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There aren’t any identifications of Haworthia jacobseniana.
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Etymology of Haworthia:
For Adrian Hardy Haworth (1768–1833), English botanist, entomologist, carcinologist and an authority on succulents and lepidoptera. He did pioneering work in North America, Canada and Mexico focusing on cacti, and published Synopsis Plantarum Succulentarum (1819) with subsequent supplements. In England he collected and studied butterflies, publishing Lepidoptera Britannica (1803–1828). During his life he amassed a collection of over 40 000 insects. He was a Fellow of the Linnaean and Royal Horticultural societies and a friend of Sir Joseph Banks. In 1833 he lent support to the founding of what was to become the Royal Entomological Society of London.
Etymology of jacobseniana:
Named after either Werner Bahne Georg Jacobsen (1909-1995), a German geologist and geobotanist at the eniversities of Berlin, Graz, Leoben (Austria) and Munich. His main interest was in the ferns and published The ferns and fern allies of southern Africa (1983). Collected around 5500 specimens, most of which were destroyed in the Berlin fire. Or named after Niels Henning Günther Jacobsen (1941-). A German ecologist and herpetologist who mainly collected plants (around 4000 specimens) mainly from Zimbabwe and Transvaal.
Scientific name:
Haworthia jacobseniana Poelln.
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Protologue:
Desert Pl. Life 9: 102 (1937)
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Year published:
1937
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Haworthia jacobseniana.
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