Species Massonia pygmaea
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Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Massonia:
For Francis Masson (1741–1805), British gardener and plant collector for Kew Gardens. He was sent by Sir Joseph Banks to collect plants in South Africa and sailed with Captain James Cook to the Cape, where he stayed from 1772–1775. Two of his three expeditions were made jointly with Carl Peter Thunberg, who named this genus for him. From 1786–1795, he visited Madeira, the Canary Islands and Azores, West Indies, North America and North Africa. He collected more than 500 specimens including, now household names, the bird-of-paradise flower Strelitzia reginae and the arum lily Zantedeschia aethiopica among others such as Gladioli, Lobelia, Geranium, Pelargonium, Protea and Mesembryanthemum. He authored Stapeliae Novae on new South African succulents he discovered (1796).
Etymology of pygmaea:
From the Latin pygmaea = ‘dwarfish’
Scientific name:
Massonia pygmaea Kunth
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Synonym of:
Unknown
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Protologue:
Enum. Pl. (Kunth) 4: 298 (1843)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1843
Bulbous geophyte to 5 cm. Leaves small, prostrate, pustulate-papillate, bracts large. Flowers clustered between the leaves, tubular below, pink or white, filaments usually of two lengths. Apr.--June. Mountains, NW, SW (Kamiesberg, Cedarberg Mts to Villiersdorp).
Observations of Taxon
Massonia pygmaea
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
08/09/2012 - 3:40pm
Collection:
Massonia
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
05/09/2012 - 12:23pm
Collection:
Melianthus pectinatus
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
05/09/2012 - 11:33am
Collection:
Massonia pygmaea
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
07/09/2013 - 4:23pm
Collection:
Massonia
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
03/09/2013 - 12:44pm