Species Hermannia muricata
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Range:
Location 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 muricata:
From the Latin muricata = 'spiny' (like the purple fish, a murex), in reference to its elongate dorsal and pectoral-fin spines
Scientific name:
Hermannia muricata Eckl. & Zeyh.
Synonym of:
Unknown
Long etymology:
Protologue:
Enum. Pl. Afric. Austral. 1: 43 (1834 [1835])
Synonym status:
Year published:
1835
Observations of Taxon
Hermannia muricata
Name of observer:
Annelise Le Roux and Zelda Wahl (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Collection:
Hermannia muricata
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Collection:
Hermannia muricata
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Collection:
Hermannia muricata
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Collection:
Hermannia muricata
Locality:
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
04/06/2020 - 8:36am
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