Species Tricalysia sonderiana
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Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Tricalysia:
Gk. tris = three; kylix = a shallow bowl. The flowers have a true calyx and two epicalyces.
Etymology of sonderiana:
For Otto Wilhelm Sonder (1812–1881), German botanist and pharmacist, practising in Hamburg. He accumulated an enormous private herbarium in excess of 250 000 specimens from some of the leading botanists and collectors of his day.
Scientific name:
Tricalysia sonderiana Hiern
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Long etymology:
He had a special interest in algae, and wrote an algal supplement to Mueller’s Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae and a major paper on Australian tropical algae. Although he never actually visited the Cape, he co-authored with William Henry Harvey the first three volumes of the seven-volume Flora Capensis. He also wrote Flora Hamburgensis, and was editor and author of several families of Plantae Muellerianae in the journal Linnaea.
Scientific name status:
Protologue:
Fl. Trop. Afr. [Oliver et al.] 3: 119 (1877)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1877
Observations of Taxon
Tricalysia sonderiana
Name of observer:
Richard Boon (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown