Species Huernia guttata
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There aren’t any identifications of Huernia guttata.
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Huernia:
For Justus Heurnius (1587–1652), Dutch missionary, doctor and an early collector at the Cape, South Africa. His drawings constituted the iconotypes for Stapelia, which is what the first taxa of Huernia was described as. He was the author of De Legatione Evangelica ad Indos capessenda admonitio (1618) and discovered Orbea variegate at the Cape in April 1624, while on his way to Batavia (present-day Jakarta) as a missionary. In 1639 he returned to the Netherlands, where he became a minister at Wijk bij Duurstede and helped to translate the Bible into Malay. The genus name Huernia was misspelled by Robert Brown, who published it in 1810.
Etymology of guttata:
From the Latin guttatus meaning spotted in referrence to the markings on the leaves.
Scientific name:
Huernia guttata (Masson) Haw.
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Unknown
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Protologue:
Syn. Pl. Succ. 30 (1812)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1812
Like H. barbata but flowers campanulate with shiny, raised annulus, cream finely spotted with maroon with spots larger and coalescing on annulus, with a few long straight hairs in the throat. Dec.--Apr. Karroid scrub and stony grassland, NW, KM, SE (Namaqualand to Citrusdal, Calitzdorp to E Cape).
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Huernia guttata.
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