Species Lobelia tysonii
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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 tysonii:
For William Tyson (1851–1920), Jamaican-born South African botanist, plant collector, schoolteacher. He taught in various South African schools (1874–1887), joined the forestry department as secretary to the superintendent (1888–1892), and became librarian and sub-editor of the Agricultural Journal for the agricultural department (1893–1904).
Scientific name:
Lobelia tysonii E. Phillips
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Long etymology:
He was a main contributor to the Herbarium Normale Austro-Africanum organised by Bolus and MacOwan. On his retirement, he disposed of his phanerogam herbarium to the Cape government, and his personal set of marine algae to the Bolus Herbarium. In 1919, he was contracted to collect 10 sets of phanerogams for the Botanical Society, but took ill on the first collecting expedition to Coffee Bay and died shortly thereafter. He was a Fellow of the Linnaean Society.
Protologue:
Ann. S. African Mus. 16: 176 (1917)
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Year published:
1917
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Lobelia tysonii.
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