Species Ursinia montana
Pictures from Observations
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Ursinia:
Named in honour of Johann Ursinus of Regensburg, the author of Arboretum Biblicum. Sphenogyne R.Br. is not considered separable.
Etymology of montana:
From the Latin montanus = ‘relating to mountains’
Scientific name:
Ursinia montana DC.
Localities:
Synonym of:
Unknown
Long etymology:
Named in honour of Swedish botanist Georg (Goran) Wahlenberg (1780 – 1851). Wahlenberg succeeded Carl Peter Thunberg as chair of Medicine and Botany, the same chair held in the previous century by Carl Linnaeus. Professor of Medicine and Botany at Uppsala University, he studied homeopathy and becoming convinced of its truth, became the first person to introduce homeopathy into Sweden.
Protologue:
Prodr. (DC.) 5: 688 (1836)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1836
Observations of Taxon
Ursinia montana
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
18/02/2013 - 10:15am
Collection:
Ursinia montana
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
18/01/2012 - 1:23pm
Collection:
