Species Nestlera levynsae

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There aren’t any identifications of Nestlera levynsae.

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Etymology of Nestlera:

For Chrétien Géofroy (also Christian Gottfried) Nestler (1778–1832), Alsatian botanist, professor of botany and pharmacy, faculty of medicine, chief pharmacist of the hospitals of Strasbourg and director of the botanical garden of Strasbourg in 1816. He wrote a thesis on Potentilla. He studied in Paris under Louis Claude Marie Richard, a French botanist. With JB Mougeot, he made a fabulous collection of plants of Alsace and the Vosges. In 1830 he discovered, on the banks of the Rhine, the moss Trichostomum viridulum from the family Pottiaceae. He was a prolific author of both botanical and pharmacologicial works, which included Index Plantarum quae in Horto Academ. Argentinensi (1818).

Etymology of levynsae:

Named after renowned Capetonian botanist Margaret Rutherford Bryan Levyns (née Michell) (1890–1975). She was a formidable lecturer and tour-de-force of identification, producing a guide to the genera of the Cape Peninsula, and a monograph on Lobostemon and Muraltia. She later married John Levyns and by her death had collected over 12 000 specimens.

Scientific name:

Nestlera levynsae Hutch.

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Authors:

Hutch.

Protologue:

Botanist S. Afr. 140 (1946)

Synonym status:

Heterotypic synonym