Species Hermannia myrrhifolia
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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.
Scientific name:
Hermannia myrrhifolia Thunb.
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Protologue:
Diss. Herm. 16
Synonym status:
Sprawling shrublet to 15 cm with long trailing branches from woody base. Leaves pinnatisect, subsecund. Flowers few at the branch tips on nearly naked peduncles, red and yellow, tightly furled. Sept.--Oct. Granite rocks and coastal sands, NW, SW (Lambert's Bay to Mamre hills).
Observations of Taxon
Hermannia myrrhifolia
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Name of observer:
Lynda de Wet (David)
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