Species Heywoodia lucens
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Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Heywoodia:
For Arthur William Heywood (1853–1918), a conservator of forests in South Africa from at least 1886–1906, author of the Cape woods and forests section in Official Handbook: Indian and Colonial Exhibition (London, 1886) and reports such as Report on Forestry in Basutoland [now Lesotho] to Government Secretary, Maseru (1908). He fought an uphill battle to conserve the Eastern Cape’s indigenous natural forests, such as the Dwesa-Cwebe forested area located in the rugged Wild Coast of the former Transkei, from rapid destruction by local inhabitants who used merchantable timber as well as young trees as poles or ‘wall’ material in the construction of huts and kraals, leaving behind impoverished soil.
Etymology of lucens:
From the Latin ‘lucens’ / ‘lucens’ meaning ‘shining’
Scientific name:
Unknown
Synonym of:
Unknown
Long etymology:
Protologue:
For. Fl. Cape Col. 326 (1907)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1907
Observations of Taxon
Heywoodia lucens
Name of observer:
Richard Boon (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown