Species Ruschia haworthii

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There aren’t any identifications of Ruschia haworthii.

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Location unknown

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Etymology of Ruschia:

For Ernst Julius Rusch (1867–1957), Namibian farmer, businessman and plant collector. He came to South-West Africa (Namibia) in 1890, where he grew succulent plants and later established a nursery at Lichtenstein, near Windhoek, Namibia. He and his son Ernst Franz Rusch Jnr (1897–1964) made many collecting trips together. He was one of the founders of Windhoek, and was given freedom of the city on his 60th birthday.

Etymology of haworthii:

Named after Adrian Hardy Haworth (1768-1833) from Hull, Yorkshire, England. He was an entomologist and botanist who collected over 20 000 plants. A succulent collector who described many South African succulents from the plants he grew in London, Haworth made a vast contribution to the botanical exploration of southern Africa without ever leaving England. The genus Haworthia is named after him.

Scientific name:

Unknown

Synonym of:

Unknown

Long etymology:

Elected F.L.S. in 1798; he lived in Chelsea 1793–1812; at Cottingham near Hull 1812–1817, then returned to Chelsea; corresponded with most of the great collectors of succulents of the day e.g. Van Marum, Salm-Dyck. Publications of note in this regard include Observations on the genus Mesembryanthemum (1795); Miscellanea naturalia (1803); Synopsis plantarum succulentarum (1812); Revisiones plantarum succulentarum (1821) and a long series of miscellaneous works and papers in The Philosophical Magazine. Much of his collection was destroyed by H.B. Fielding after examining them, the remnants of which are now in OXF.

Authors:

Jacobsen & G.D. Rowley

Protologue:

Natl. Cact. Succ. J. 28: 6 (1973)

Synonym status:

Accepted

Year published:

1973