Species Ruschia hutchinsonii
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There aren’t any identifications of Ruschia hutchinsonii.
Range:
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 hutchinsonii:
Named after horticulturist and botanist John Hutchinson (1884-1972) of Kew Gardens. He was Keeper of the African section and worked as an assistant in the Indian section of the herbarium. The genus Hutchinsonia is commemorates his many contributions to botany.
Scientific name:
Ruschia hutchinsonii L. Bolus
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Long etymology:
He undertook two collecting expeditions in Southern Africa which he documented in A Botanist in Southern Africa (1946). On the first trip he travelled from Cape Town to Pretoria, a distance of over 11 000km and he collected 3000 species. In the second visit went from Irene (Pretoria) to Zimbabwe to Lake Tanganyika.
Protologue:
Notes Mesembryanthemum Pt. 2, 23 (1928)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1928
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Ruschia hutchinsonii.