Species Mascarenhasia fischeri
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There aren’t any identifications of Mascarenhasia fischeri.
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Location unknown
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Etymology of Mascarenhasia:
For Don Pedro Mascarenhas (1470–1555), Portuguese fleet commander, explorer and colonial administrator, who was the first European to discover the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, in 1512, and may also have seen Mauritius. His helmsman on that trip to Goa was Diogo Rodrigues (c 1490/1501–1577). Years later, in 1528, when making his way back to Portugal across the Indian Ocean from Goa, Rodrigues navigated via the islands of Réunion, Mauritius and Rodrigues (their current names) naming this entire archipelago, including several small islands nearby, the Mascarene Island, Mascarene, or Mascarenhas Islands, after his countryman and commander Don Pedro Mascarenhas.
Etymology of fischeri:
Named after Swiss botanist Emanuel Friedrich Ludwig Fischer (1828 - 1907). He conducted research on both phanerogams and cryptogams, native to the canton of Bern. He was the father of mycologist Eduard Fischer. He became director of the botanical gardens at Bern and became full professor of botany at the University of Bern from 1863 to 1897.
Scientific name:
Mascarenhasia fischeri K. Schum.
Synonym of:
Unknown
Long etymology:
Protologue:
Engl. Pflanzenw. Ost -Afr. C 318 (1895)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1895
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Mascarenhasia fischeri.
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