Species Podalyria rotundifolia
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Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Podalyria:
For Podalirius (La.), from Podaleirios (Gk.), son of Asklepios, god of healing. He and his brother, Machaon were physicians to the Greek army during the Trojan wars, as described in the Iliad. The brothers’ great feat was the healing of the festering foot of Philoctetes, who was badly needed for his arrows, but whose fetid stench sorely disturbed the warriors. The flowers of this genus are strongly fragrant but not unpleasantly so, rather sweet-smelling.
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Unknown
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Long etymology:
Erect, woody, resprouting shrub to 3 m. Leaves 1-foliolate, ovate to suborbicular, adpressed-hairy above, felted or softly hairy beneath when young. Flowers bright pink and white; bracts depressed ovate, sheathing more than half of the bud but not calyptrate. Aug.--Nov. Sandstione slopes, 260--1166 m, NW, SW, LB (Cedarberg to Langeberg Mts).
Observations of Taxon
Podalyria rotundifolia
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Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
12/12/2020 - 3:21pm
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