Species Lobelia comosa
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Etymology of Lobelia:
For Mathias de L’Obel (Lobel, Lobelius) (1538–1616), Flemish botanist, traveller, plant collector. He studied medicine in Leuven and Montpellier and practised medicine from 1571–1581 in Antwerp and Delft, where he was physician to William, Prince of Orange. In 1584 he left the Netherlands for England to escape the civil war and never returned. He became physician to King James I of England and also the king’s botanist. His major work, written in collaboration with Pierre Pena, was Stirpium Adversaria Nova (1571), which describes some 1 500 species in the vicinity of Montpellier, also of Tyrol, Switzerland and the Netherlands. A second volume, Plantarum Historia Stirpium, was published in 1576 with more than 2 000 illustrations, and a further work, Icones Stirpium, seu, Plantarum Tam Exoticarum in 1591.
Etymology of comosa:
From the Latin comosus = 'having long or abundant hairs' or 'with a tuft', 'having many leaves' or 'being leafy'
Scientific name:
Lobelia comosa L.
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Synonym status:
Soft shrublet to 50 cm, branching from the base. Leaves .... Flowers bright blue. Mainly Aug.--Jan. Sandy coastal slopes, SW, AP (Cape Peninsula to Caledon).
Observations of Taxon
Lobelia comosa
Name of observer:
Hilda Mason (David)
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Lobelia comosa
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Amida Johns (David)
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Lobelia comosa
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Maarten Groos (David)
Date observed:
17/10/2006 - 4:42pm
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Lobelia comosa
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Lynda de Wet (David)
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