Species Heeria dinteri
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Etymology of Heeria:
For Oswald von Heer (1809–1883), Swiss paleobotanist, entomologist, phytogeographer, traveller, theologian, plant and insect collector, director of the botanical gardens in Zurich, and professor of botany and entomology at the University of Zurich (1852–1883) and the Swiss Federal institute of Technology. He published a prodigious number of books and papers on, inter alia, the primaeval world of Switzerland, the fossil flora of Alaska, Arctica, Croatia, the Netherlands and Portugal including Flora Tertiaria Helvetiae (three volumes, 1855–1859), Die Urwelt der Schweiz (1865), and Flora Fossilis Arctica (seven volumes, 1868–1883) with Eduard Heinrich Graeff. He described over 1 600 new species in his three major paleobotanical works alone.
Etymology of dinteri:
Moritz Kurt Dinter (1868 -1945) was a German botanist and explorer in South West Africa (Namibia). Dinter collected many new species, covered an estimated 40,000 km on foot, by wagon and motor vehicle during the course of his collecting trips, which spanned 38 years. His collection of pressed specimens numbered in excess of 8400.
Scientific name:
Heeria dinteri Schinz
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Long etymology:
Dinter's biography can be seen at Wikipedia here
Protologue:
Bull. Herb. Boissier Ser. II. 3: 822 (1903)
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Year published:
1903
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Heeria dinteri.