Species Lobelia humifusa
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Range:
Location unknown
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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 humifusa:
From the Latin humus = ‘ground’ and fusus = ‘poured over’; referring to a spreading habitat
Scientific name:
Unknown
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Long etymology:
Slender sprawling annual to l5 cm. Leaves ... Flowers pale blue. Nov.--Dec. Shady damp coastal and inland slopes, NW, SW, KM (Swartberg and Hex River Mts to Cape Peninsula).
Observations of Taxon
Lobelia humifusa
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
25/01/2012 - 12:55pm
Collection:
Lobelia humifusa
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Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
18/12/2008 - 11:36am
Collection: