Species Nymphaea engleri
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There aren’t any identifications of Nymphaea engleri.
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Nymphaea:
La. nymphaea = water-lily; Gk. nymphe = goddess of springs, general name for delightful, mythological, semi-divine water-maidens (Virgil), also bride; (Nymphaios = sacred to the nymphs); referring to the water lilies, of which there are many in this genus.
Etymology of engleri:
After Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler (1844-1930), botanist from Berlin. He instigated and contributed to multiple prodigious botanical flora of both the world and Brazil. He visited SA three times and Namibia once. He developed the most famous 'Engler' system of botanical arrangement by which many herbaria were arranged.
Scientific name:
Nymphaea engleri Gilg
Synonym of:
Unknown
Long etymology:
Protologue:
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 41: 360 (1908)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1908
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Nymphaea engleri.