Species Peglera capensis
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There aren’t any identifications of Peglera capensis.
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Location unknown
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Etymology of Peglera:
For Alice Marguerite Pegler (1861–1929), teacher, painter and East Cape collector around the area of Kentani where she lived. She corresponded with the leading botanists of South Africa including MacOwan, Bolus, Pearson, Selmar Schönland, Pole Evans, Kolbe and others. She collected over 2 000 specimens, most of which were from an area with a radius of 8 kilometres from the village of Kentani where she had settled. Her observations ‘On the flora of Kentani’ were published in Annals of the Bolus Herbarium 2:1–32 (1918), as they changed month to month throughout the year. When her eyesight began to fail she turned her attention to algae and fungi but had to give this up completely as her health deteriorated. She donated her personal herbarium to the Pretoria Museum.
Etymology of capensis:
From the Cape Province of South Africa, previously known as the Cape Colony. -ensis is a Latin adjectival suffix meaning “pertaining to or “originating in,” Thus these organisms were first discovered in the Cape. In the early days of exploration this epithet was frequently applied to anywhere in South Africa or even Southern Africa
Scientific name:
Peglera capensis Bolus
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Protologue:
Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 362 (1907)
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Year published:
1907
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Peglera capensis.
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