Species Sebaea tysonii
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There aren’t any identifications of Sebaea tysonii.
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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 tysonii:
For William Tyson (1851–1920), Jamaican-born South African botanist, plant collector, schoolteacher. He taught in various South African schools (1874–1887), joined the forestry department as secretary to the superintendent (1888–1892), and became librarian and sub-editor of the Agricultural Journal for the agricultural department (1893–1904).
Scientific name:
Sebaea tysonii Schinz
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Long etymology:
He was a main contributor to the Herbarium Normale Austro-Africanum organised by Bolus and MacOwan. On his retirement, he disposed of his phanerogam herbarium to the Cape government, and his personal set of marine algae to the Bolus Herbarium. In 1919, he was contracted to collect 10 sets of phanerogams for the Botanical Society, but took ill on the first collecting expedition to Coffee Bay and died shortly thereafter. He was a Fellow of the Linnaean Society.
Protologue:
Bull. Herb. Boissier Ser. II. 8: 703 (1908)
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Year published:
1908
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Sebaea tysonii.
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