Species Nerine transvaalensis
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Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Nerine:
For Nerine, in Greek mythology a sea-nymph or nereid, daughter of Doris and Nereus, and granddaughter of Oceanus and Tethys. The Nereids were meant to protect sailors and their ships. Common name ‘Guernsey lily’. In 1820, William Herbert named this indigenous South African plant Nerine (previously Imhofia), when a ship carrying boxes of the bulbs of this species was shipwrecked on Guernsey. The boxes were washed ashore, and flowers grew around the coast, hence the common name.
Etymology of transvaalensis:
From the former Transvaal Province of South Africa; now Gauteng Province. Trans meaning 'across', and vaal refers to the Vaal River, it being on the far side of the river from the Cape.
Scientific name:
Nerine transvaalensis L. Bolus
Synonym of:
Unknown
Long etymology:
Scientific name status:
Protologue:
Fl. Pl. South Africa 18: sub t. 6 (1938)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1938
Observations of Taxon
Nerine transvaalensis
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown