Species Lobelia pubescens
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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 pubescens:
From the Latin pubescens meaning ‘downy’ with short soft hairs
Scientific name:
Lobelia pubescens Aiton
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Synonym status:
Spreading annual or perennial, stems to 50 cm. Leaves .... Flowers white. Mainly Oct.--Mar. Rocky slopes and damp rocks near the coast, SW, AP, LB, SE (Cape Peninsula to Storm's River Mouth).
Observations of Taxon
Lobelia pubescens
Name of observer:
Anne Bean & Amida Johns (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Lobelia pubescens
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Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
14/12/2020 - 8:30am
Collection:
Lobelia
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Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
28/11/2014 - 10:47am
Collection:
Lobelia pubescens
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
11/02/2015 - 3:02pm
Lobelia pubescens
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Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
22/07/2017 - 2:00am
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