Species Passerina montana
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Etymology of Passerina:
Believed to be from the Latin passer, a sparrow; -ina, relating to; referring to the black seeds resembling a sparrow?s beak.
Etymology of montana:
From the Latin montanus = ‘relating to mountains’
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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.
Protologue:
Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 152 (1924)
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Year published:
1924
Observations of Taxon
Passerina montana
Name of observer:
Richard Boon (David)
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Passerina montana
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Janet M. Gibson (David)
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Passerina montana
Name of observer:
Elsa Pooley (David)
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Passerina montana
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Barbra Jeppe (David)
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Passerina montana
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
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