Species Hermannia cuneifolia
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Range:
Range unknown
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Etymology of Hermannia:
For Paul Hermann (1646–1695), German-born Dutch physician and botanist. He graduated in medicine at the universities of Leiden and Padua, became a ship’s medical officer (1672–1677) for the Dutch East India Company and went to Sri Lanka via the Cape, where he made the first known herbarium collection of local plants, now housed in the Sloane Herbarium, British Museum of Natural History and at Oxford. In 1679 he became professor of botany at the University of Leiden and director of the Hortus Botanicus in Leiden, Europe’s finest botanical garden. His 1687 publication Horti Academici Lugduno-Batavi Catalogus includes 34 Cape plants, and his proposed Prodomus Plantaerum Africanarum was to contain 791 items, but untimely death intervened.
Etymology of cuneifolia:
From the Latin cuneus = 'wedge' and folius = 'leaf'; referring to the shape of the leaf with a narrow base and wide apex
Scientific name:
Hermannia cuneifolia Jacq.
Synonym of:
Unknown
Long etymology:
Protologue:
Pl. Rar. Hort. Schoenbr. 1: 66, t. 124 (1797)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1797
Roughly scaly, twiggy shrub to 1 m. Leaves cuneate, coarsely toothed above, sometimes appearing fascicled. Flowers on subsecund racemes, yellow often fading reddish. Mainly Aug.--Oct. Clay and granitic slopes, NW, SW, KM, AP, LB, SE (Namaqualand to E Cape and Lesotho).
Observations of Taxon
Hermannia cuneifolia
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
30/08/2021 - 10:06am
Collection:
Hermannia cuneifolia
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
30/08/2021 - 4:08pm
Collection:
Hermannia cuneifolia
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
30/08/2021 - 10:06am
Collection:
Hermannia cuneifolia
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
30/08/2021 - 4:08pm
Collection:
Hermannia cuneifolia
Name of observer:
Annelise Le Roux and Zelda Wahl (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Collection: