Species Riocreuxia torulosa
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Etymology of Riocreuxia:
Alfred Riocreux (1820–1912), French artist and botanical illustrator. He was trained by his artist father, and showed precocious talent. His drawing and paintings as a 13-year-old were so good that the State Porcelain Factory at Sevres, where his father worked, considered conserving them. The botanist Adolphe Théodore Brongniart (1801–1876) saw his sketches and was probably responsible for bringing him to the Paris Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle. TG Hill, author of The Essentials of Illustration (London, 1915), has described Riocreux’s work on seaweeds for a work by Gustave Thuret as ‘the finest plates ever published in a botanical work’, while the distinguished Dutch botanist FA Stafleu, writing in 1966, commented: ‘Riocreux was one of the great botanical artists of all time’.
Scientific name:
Riocreuxia torulosa Schltr.
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Slender, shortly hairy climber to 2 m, with clear sap. Leaves opposite, soft, cordate-ovate. Flowers tubular with petals remaining fused at the tips, pale yellow tinged purplish. Dec.--Mar. Forest margins and scrub, SE (George to Mpumalanga).
Observations of Taxon
Riocreuxia torulosa
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CE van Ginkel or CJ Cilliers (David)
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Riocreuxia torulosa
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Auriol Batten (David)
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Riocreuxia torulosa
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Elsa Pooley (David)
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Riocreuxia torulosa
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Barbra Jeppe (David)
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Riocreuxia torulosa
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Yvette van Wijk (Yvette)
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