Species Ruschia jacobseniana
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There aren’t any identifications of Ruschia jacobseniana.
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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 jacobseniana:
Named after either Werner Bahne Georg Jacobsen (1909-1995), a German geologist and geobotanist at the eniversities of Berlin, Graz, Leoben (Austria) and Munich. His main interest was in the ferns and published The ferns and fern allies of southern Africa (1983). Collected around 5500 specimens, most of which were destroyed in the Berlin fire. Or named after Niels Henning Günther Jacobsen (1941-). A German ecologist and herpetologist who mainly collected plants (around 4000 specimens) mainly from Zimbabwe and Transvaal.
Scientific name:
Ruschia jacobseniana L. Bolus
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Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Ruschia jacobseniana.