Species Rottboellia sanguinea
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There aren’t any identifications of Rottboellia sanguinea.
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Location unknown
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Etymology of Rottboellia:
For Christen Friis Rottbøll (Rottboell, 1727–1797), Danish botanist and physician, traveller, professor of medicine from 1776 at the University of Copenhagen, and director of the Copenhagen Botanical Garden. As a student, he studied theology, then medicine at the University of Copenhagen, obtaining his doctorate in 1755, and completed further studies in chemistry, botany and medicine at Uppsala University under Linnaeus. Rottbøll made a significant contribution to the way smallpox was prevented or treated in Copenhagen, and as a botanist, he drew up the first comprehensive Flora of Greenland
Etymology of sanguinea:
From the Latin sanguis = 'blood'; generally referring to the colour blood-red.
Scientific name:
Rottboellia sanguinea Retz.
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Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Rottboellia sanguinea.