Species Rivina humilis
Pictures from Observations
There aren’t any identifications of Rivina humilis.
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Rivina:
For Augustus Quirinus Rivinus (1652–1723), born August Bachmann, German botanist and physician, professor of botany and physiology at the University of Leipzig (1691), and also curator of the university’s garden of medicinal plants. In 1701, he became professor of pathology and, in 1719, professor of therapeutics and permanent dean of the faculty of medicine. That same year, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. He authored Introductio Generalis in rem Herbariam (Leipzig, 1690), a classification of plants based on the structure of flowers, mainly the shape of the corolla, as well as three other books on plant orders.
Etymology of humilis:
From the Latin humilis = ‘humble’; referring to a low or sprawling habit
Scientific name:
Rivina humilis L.
Synonym of:
Unknown
Long etymology:
Protologue:
Sp. Pl. 1: 121 (1753)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1753
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Rivina humilis.