Species Metalasia montana
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There aren’t any identifications of Metalasia montana.
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Metalasia:
Gk. meta- = meaning reverse; lasios = shaggy, woolly. The leaves are twisted, rolled upward, to present the woolly side of the leaf from the top to the bottom.
Etymology of montana:
From the Latin montanus = ‘relating to mountains’
Scientific name:
Unknown
Synonym of:
Unknown
Long etymology:
Named in honour of Swedish botanist Georg (Goran) Wahlenberg (1780 – 1851). Wahlenberg succeeded Carl Peter Thunberg as chair of Medicine and Botany, the same chair held in the previous century by Carl Linnaeus. Professor of Medicine and Botany at Uppsala University, he studied homeopathy and becoming convinced of its truth, became the first person to introduce homeopathy into Sweden.
Protologue:
Opera Bot. 99: 102 (1989)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1989
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Metalasia montana.
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