Species Mikania capensis
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There aren’t any identifications of Mikania capensis.
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Location unknown
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Etymology of Mikania:
For Josef (Joseph) Gottfried Mikan (1743–1814), Austrian-Czech botanist and medical professor at the University of Prague, and father of the naturalist and zoologist Johann C Mikan (1769–1844). He studied at Dresden, Prague and Vienna and started his career as a doctor before becoming associate professor (1773), professor of botany and chemistry (1775) and then rector of the University of Prague (1798). He was the author of Catalogus Plantarum Omnium (1776), which was dedicated to the Botanical Garden of Prague.
Etymology of capensis:
From the Cape Province of South Africa, previously known as the Cape Colony. -ensis is a Latin adjectival suffix meaning “pertaining to or “originating in,” Thus these organisms were first discovered in the Cape. In the early days of exploration this epithet was frequently applied to anywhere in South Africa or even Southern Africa
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Protologue:
Prodr. (DC.) 5: 198 (1836)
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Year published:
1836
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Mikania capensis.
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