Species Monsonia spinosa
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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 spinosa:
From the Latin spinosus = ‘thorny’
Scientific name:
Monsonia spinosa L'Hér.
Common names:
Yellow Candle Bush
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Protologue:
Geraniologia t. 42 (1792)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1792
Spiny stem-succulent to 80 cm, branches less than 10 mm thick, pale olive-green to grey. Leaves long- and short-petioled, obovate to round, emarginate, glaucous. Flowers to 35 mm diam., yellow, sepals with mucro >2 mm long. Aug.--Sept. Rocky slopes, NW (Richtersveld to Olifants River valley).
Observations of Taxon
Monsonia spinosa
Name of observer:
Annelise Le Roux and Zelda Wahl (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Collection:
Monsonia spinosa
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
06/09/2012 - 12:35pm
Collection:
Monsonia spinosa
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
04/09/2013 - 3:49pm
Monsonia spinosa
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
05/09/2013 - 11:55am