Species Vachellia montana
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There aren’t any identifications of Vachellia montana.
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Location unknown
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Etymology of Vachellia:
For Rev. George Harvey Vachell (1798–1839), British priest, plant collector. He graduated from Cambridge University in 1821. He went to China in 1828 and stayed in Macau until 1836, except for a leave of absence in 1832. He became the chaplain to the British East India Company’s factory in Macau (Macao) from 1825–1836. In his spare time, he and collected plants in China when he was in Canton, and also sailed around the islands of Macao in his small boat. He discovered several new taxa and gave his collections to Reverend Professor JS Henslow of Cambridge, who passed them on to WJ Hooker and John Lindley.
Etymology of montana:
From the Latin montanus = ‘relating to mountains’
Scientific name:
Vachellia montana (P.P. Sw.) Kyal. & Boatwr.
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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:
J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 172: 514 (2013)
Synonym status:
Year published:
2013
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Vachellia montana.
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