Species Stapelia gordonii
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There aren’t any identifications of Stapelia gordonii.
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Location unknown
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Etymology of Stapelia:
For Johannes Bodaeus van Stapel (1602–1636), Dutch physician and botanist. He received a medical degree in 1625 from Leiden University and studied botany under Adolphus Vorstius. His life’s ambition was to publish an annotated edition of the botanical works of Theophrastus (370–287 BCE), but he died before the book was finished. The content was edited and published by his father as Theophrasti Eresii de Historia Plantarum in 1644. One of the plants in the book, drawn by Justus Heurnius (1587–1653) from his brief stay at the Cape in 1624, was Fritillaria crassa (Stapelia variegata), now known as Orbea variegata. The genus was named Stapelia in 1753 by Linnaeus in his Species Plantarum.
Etymology of gordonii:
Named after Col. Robert Jacob Gordon (1743-1795), who discovered the plant somewhere near the Orange River in the 18th Century.
Scientific name:
Stapelia gordonii Masson
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Protologue:
Stapel. 24. t. 40
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Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Stapelia gordonii.
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