Species Roella spicata
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Location unknown
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Etymology of Roella:
For Willem (Wilhelm) Röell (1700–1775), Dutch professor of anatomy in Amsterdam and horticulturist. He commenced his medical studies in 1718 and graduated at the University of Leiden in 1725. In 1731, he succeeded Frederick Ruysch as praelector anatomiae. This proved to be a poor choice as he neglected his teaching duties and the quality of training was poor, thus earning the ire of the Surgeons Guilds in Delft and Amsterdam. In 1754, he became a governor of the West Indian Company and owned two plantations in British Guiana. In 1755, he was made professor of anatomy and surgery at the Amsterdam Athaeum, but resigned the same year because of ill health. He owned the mansion De Keukenhof at Lisse, where he kept a botanical collection, and donated specimens, Lithophyta (stone plants) and African seed to the Clifford collection.
Etymology of spicata:
From the Latin spicatus = ‘spiked’
Scientific name:
Roella spicata L. f.
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Synonym of:
Unknown
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Protologue:
Suppl. Pl. 143 (1782)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1782
Erect or sprawling shrublet to 40 cm. Leaves with axillary tufts, linear-pungent, coarsely ciliate below; outer bracts leaf-like but broad and clasping below, inner bracts shorter, ovate, toothed above. Flowers in terminal and lateral heads, white, tubular-campanulate, c. 10 mm diam., ovary hairy, occ. glabrous. Sandstone slopes, SW, KM, LB, SE (Houw Hoek to Port Elizabeth).
Observations of Taxon
Roella spicata
Locality:
Name of observer:
Pauline Bohnen (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Roella spicata
Locality:
Name of observer:
Pauline Bohnen (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown