Species Monsonia crassicaule
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Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Monsonia:
For Lady Ann Monson (née Vane) (1714–1776), English naturalist and great-granddaughter of Charles II. In 1774, aged 60, she came to the Cape on her way to India. Carl Peter Thunberg (1743–1728), who had arrived two years earlier to collect plant specimens and learn Dutch, took Lady Ann to a number of farms adjacent to Cape Town. She seemingly had more interest in the animal kingdom than the floral one. Lady Ann corresponded with Linnaeus, who seemed besotted with her, and he named the genus in her honour, writing: ‘Nature has never produced a woman who is your equal – you are a phoenix among women.’
Etymology of crassicaule:
From the Latin crassus = "thick" and caule = "stem"
Scientific name:
Unknown
Common names:
Noerap
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Unknown
Long etymology:
Spiny stem-succulent to 50 cm, branches more than 10 mm thick, grey or greyish yellow. Leaves ovate to obovate, irregularly pinnatifid with margins crenate to dentate, usually tomentose. Flowers to 55 mm diam., pale to bright yellow, sepals with mucro >2 mm long. May--June. Rocky places, NW, KM (S Namibia to Cedarberg and Little Karoo).
Observations of Taxon
Monsonia crassicaule
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Name of observer:
Mannheimer, Maggs-Kölling, Kolberg or Rügheimer (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Monsonia crassicaule
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Name of observer:
Mannheimer, Maggs-Kölling, Kolberg or Rügheimer (David)
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Date observed unknown
Monsonia crassicaule
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Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
30/08/2012 - 1:38pm
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Monsonia crassicaule
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Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
03/09/2012 - 3:31pm
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Monsonia crassicaule
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Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
02/09/2013 - 3:27pm
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