Species Schwantesia marlothii
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There aren’t any identifications of Schwantesia marlothii.
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Schwantesia:
For Martin Heinrich Gustav (Georg) Schwantes (1881–1960), German botanist and archaeologist. A teacher from 1903 to 1923, he studied ethnology, geology and botany at Hamburg University, graduating in 1923. He subsequently became curator of the Museum of Ethnology and Prehistory of Hamburg (1926), professor of history at the University of Hamburg (1928), director of the National Archaeological Museum of Kiel (1929), and professor of prehistory and early history in Kiel (1937). He wrote several books on the prehistory of northern Germany, a contribution on Aizoaceae for Parleys Blumengärtnerei (1957), and two botanical books, The Cultivation of the Aizoaceae (1953) and Flowering Stones and Mid-Day Flowers (1957).
Etymology of marlothii:
Named after Hermann Wilhelm Rudolf Marloth (1855-1931), a German-born pharmacist, analytical chemist and botanist who collected plants in Namibia in 1886, discovering over 100 new species. A brilliant naturalist who translated his insightful observations together with art in his seminal Flora of South Africa.
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Protologue:
Notes Mesembryanthemum 2: 354 (1932)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1932
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Schwantesia marlothii.