Species Kiggelaria grandifolia
Pictures from Observations
There aren’t any identifications of Kiggelaria grandifolia.
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 grandifolia:
From the Latin grandis = 'large' and folius = 'leaf'; referring to the size of the leaf
Scientific name:
Kiggelaria grandifolia Warb.
Synonym of:
Unknown
Long etymology:
Protologue:
Engl. Pflanzenw. Ost -Afr. C 278 (1895)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1895
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Kiggelaria grandifolia.