Species Rhus montana
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Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Rhus:
Gk. rhous, from rhodos = red (the word can be traced back for centuries); referring to the fruits or autumn leaves of some species.
Etymology of montana:
From the Latin montanus = ‘relating to mountains’
Scientific name:
Rhus montana Diels
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.
Protologue:
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 40: 86 (1907)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1907
Observations of Taxon
Rhus montana
Name of observer:
Richard Boon (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Rhus montana
Name of observer:
Elsa Pooley (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown