Species Hermannia filifolia
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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 filifolia:
From the Latin fili = 'thread' or 'string' and folius = 'leaf' ; the leaf is long and narrow
Scientific name:
Hermannia filifolia L. f.
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Protologue:
Suppl. Pl. 302 (1782)
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Year published:
1782
Glabrescent, twiggy shrublet to 1 m. Leaves and stipules subequal, often in tufts, linear, the margins revolute. Flowers on slender elongated branches, few per node, orange to red, calyx lobes usually spreading and papery. Capsules knobbed. Aug.--Oct. Sandy or clay slopes, NW, AP, KM, LB, SE (Cold Bokkeveld to Port Elizabeth and Karoo to Free State).
Observations of Taxon
Hermannia filifolia var. grandicalyx
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
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Hermannia filifolia var. robusta
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David Gwynne-Evans (David)
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Hermannia filifolia
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
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Hermannia filifolia var. filifolia
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
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Hermannia filifolia var. grandicalyx
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
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