Species Hessea karooica
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There aren’t any identifications of Hessea karooica.
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Location unknown
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Etymology of Hessea:
For Christian Henrich Friedrich Hesse (1772– 1837), German Lutheran minister, scholar and naturalist who came to Cape Town in 1800 before returning to Germany in 1817. Hesse extended his hospitality to many naturalists visiting the Cape such as Martin Heinrich Karl Lichtenstein, William John Burchell, Dugald Carmichael, Carl Bergius and others and was friends with Peter Heinrich Poleman and an apothecary and active collector of plants who was a partner in the firm Pallas & Poleman, which sent consignments of seeds, bulbs and plants back to Europe. The website Amaryllidaceae.org says Hessea was named after Paul Hesse (1837), but no supportive evidence for this could be found.
Etymology of karooica:
From the Khoisan/Khoekhoe word garo /karo / !garo-b = 'desert' or 'hard'; referring to the inland semi-desert Karoo region of South Africa
Scientific name:
Hessea karooica W. F. Barker
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Protologue:
J. S. African Bot. 1: 32 (1935)
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Year published:
1935
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Hessea karooica.
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