Species Oldenlandia cyanea
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There aren’t any identifications of Oldenlandia cyanea.
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Oldenlandia:
For Heinrich (Hendrik) Bernhard Oldenland (Oldeland) (c 1663–1697), German-born South African botanist and plant collector. He studied medicine at Leiden University under Paul Hermann (1646–1695) before coming to the Cape in 1688. He was the compiler of the first plant list at the Cape. He went on an expedition to near Aberdeen, Eastern Cape (1689), at the time the most easterly point explored. He served the government in various capacities: master-gardener of the Company’s Garden, land surveyor and the equivalent of town-engineer (superintendent of streets, roads, bridges, buildings). He compiled the 13-volume Herbarus Vivus consisting of 380 indigenous plants with a second list of exotic plants. He was working on a kruidboek of dried and mounted plants when he died.
Etymology of cyanea:
From the Latin cyanea = 'dark blue' or 'sea blue'
Scientific name:
Oldenlandia cyanea Dinter
Synonym of:
Unknown
Long etymology:
Named in honour of Swedish botanist Georg (Goran) Wahlenberg (1780 – 1851). Wahlenberg succeeded Carl Peter Thunberg as chair of Medicine and Botany, the same chair held in the previous century by Carl Linnaeus. Professor of Medicine and Botany at Uppsala University, he studied homeopathy and becoming convinced of its truth, became the first person to introduce homeopathy into Sweden.
Scientific name status:
Protologue:
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 19: 318 (1924)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1924
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Oldenlandia cyanea.