Species Kiggelaria ferruginea
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There aren’t any identifications of Kiggelaria ferruginea.
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Kiggelaria:
For Francois (Franz) Kiggelaer (1648–1722), Dutch botanist, apothecary, traveller, plant collector and curator of Dutch plant collector Simon van Beaumont’s garden in the Hague (some sources refer to Leiden), and author of Horti Beaumontii Catalogus Plantarum Exoticarum (1690), which listed Cape plants. He also collaborated with Frederik Ruysch (1638–1731), a Dutch anatomist and professor of botany at the Hortus Botanicus of Amsterdam, with the compilation of the first volume of Jan Commelin’s (1629–1692) Amstelodamensis Rariorum Horti Medici published in 1697, dealing with mainly the plants of the West Indies.
Etymology of ferruginea:
From the Latin ferrugineus meaning ‘relating to iron’
Scientific name:
Kiggelaria ferruginea Eckl. & Zeyh.
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Protologue:
Enum. Pl. Afric. Austral. 15 (1835)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1835
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Kiggelaria ferruginea.