Species Sebaea capitata
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There aren’t any identifications of Sebaea capitata.
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Sebaea:
For Albertus Seba (1665–1736), Dutch pharmacist, zoologist and naturalist. In 1700, he opened an ‘apothecary shop’ in Amsterdam and collected exotic plants and animal products from sailors and ship surgeons from which he could make ‘medicines’. In 1716, he sold his first collection (as well as the Dutch botanist Frederik Ruysch’s collection) to the Russian Tsar, Peter the Great, on his visit to the Netherlands. Seba immediately set about building an even larger collection. In 1734, he published his magnificently illustrated four-volume Thesaurus (1734, 1735), with 446 plates (2 volumes published posthumously), which displays marine animals, insects and reptiles. Linnaeus must have seen this collection when he visited Seba twice in 1735. Seba became a Fellow of Royal Society in 1728.
Etymology of capitata:
From the Latin capitatus meaning ‘equipped with a head’, tyically referring to the arrangement of the flowers in a head-like inflorescence.
Scientific name:
Sebaea capitata Cham. & Schltdl.
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Synonym of:
Unknown
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Synonym status:
Like S. aurea but flowers larger, calyx 6--10 mm long and petals 6.5--10 mm long. Oct.--Jan. Sandstone slopes, SW, LB, SE (Cape Peninsula to Great Winterhoek Mts).
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Sebaea capitata.
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