Species Pteronia hutchinsoniana
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There aren’t any identifications of Pteronia hutchinsoniana.
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Pteronia:
Gk. pteron = a wing; probably referring to seeds which are wind-dispersed.
Etymology of hutchinsoniana:
Named after horticulturist and botanist John Hutchinson (1884-1972) of Kew Gardens. He was Keeper of the African section and worked as an assistant in the Indian section of the herbarium. The genus Hutchinsonia is commemorates his many contributions to botany.
Scientific name:
Unknown
Synonym of:
Unknown
Long etymology:
Hutchinson undertook two collecting expeditions in Southern Africa which he documented in A Botanist in Southern Africa (1946). On the first trip he travelled from Cape Town to Pretoria, a distance of over 11 000km and he collected 3000 species. In the second visit went from Irene (Pretoria) to Zimbabwe to Lake Tanganyika.
Protologue:
Trans. Roy. Soc. South Africa 19: 314 (1931)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1931
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Pteronia hutchinsoniana.