Species Hermannia salviifolia
Pictures from Observations
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 salviifolia:
From the Latin ‘salvii’ / ‘salvia’ meaning ‘sage’; and the Latin ‘folia’ / ‘folium’ meaning ‘leaf’.
Scientific name:
Hermannia salviifolia L. f.
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Synonym of:
Unknown
Protologue:
Suppl. Pl. 302 (1782)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1782
Coarsely velvety, erect, twiggy shrub to 2 m. Leaves densely hairy, obovate to oblong, scarcely toothed above. Flowers in dense terminal clusters, yellow or orange, the throat narrow and petals spreading, calyx inflated and tubular. Mainly Sept.--Oct and Dec.--Apr. Stony granite and clay slopes, SW, AP, KM, LB, SE (Cape Peninsula to Grahamstown).
Observations of Taxon
Hermannia salviifolia
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Collection:
Hermannia salviifolia var. grandistipula
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Collection:
Hermannia salviifolia var. oblonga
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Collection:
Hermannia salviifolia var. salviifolia
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Collection:
Hermannia salviifolia var. grandistipula
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Collection: