Species Hesperantha montana
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There aren’t any identifications of Hesperantha montana.
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Hesperantha:
Gk. hesperos = evening; anthos = flower. Many flowers open late in the day, toward evening, Afrikaans aandblom = evening bloom/flower.
Etymology of montana:
From the Latin montanus = ‘relating to mountains’
Scientific name:
Hesperantha montana Klatt
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Long etymology:
Named in honour of Swedish botanist Georg (Goran) Wahlenberg (1780 – 1851). Wahlenberg succeeded Carl Peter Thunberg as chair of Medicine and Botany, the same chair held in the previous century by Carl Linnaeus. Professor of Medicine and Botany at Uppsala University, he studied homeopathy and becoming convinced of its truth, became the first person to introduce homeopathy into Sweden.
Protologue:
Abh. Naturf. Ges. Halle 12: 393 (1882)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1882
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Hesperantha montana.