Species Watsonia meriana
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Etymology of Watsonia:
For William Watson (1715–1787), English physician, apothecary, botanist and naturalist. He introduced the work of Linnaeus and his botanical classification system to Britain. He was the first scientist to observe the flash of light from the discharge of a Leyden jar and to show that electricity could pass through a vacuum and that it had a positive and negative charge; he coined the word ‘circuit’. His articles, entitled Experiments on the Nature of Electricity, appeared from 1745 onward in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, of which he became a member (1741) and vice president (1772). Both he and Benjamin Franklin discovered some of the same characteristics of electricity at the same time, but independently. The two men became friends.
Etymology of meriana:
From the Dutch ‘meriana’ / ‘Merian’ meaning ‘commemorating a Dutch floral artist’
Scientific name:
Watsonia meriana (L.) Mill.
Common names:
Lakpypie
Waspypie
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Cormous geophyte, 60--200 cm, sometimes with cormlets at nodes. Leaves sword-shaped. Flowers red, pink or mauve, tube elongate. Capsules oblong. Sept.--Nov. Sandy or granitic soils, often vleis and streambanks, NW, SW, AP (Namaqualand to Bredasdorp).
Observations of Taxon
Watsonia meriana
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Janet M. Gibson (David)
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Watsonia meriana
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Barbara Jeppe (David)
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Watsonia meriana
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Barbara Jeppe (David)
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Watsonia meriana
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David Gwynne-Evans (David)
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Watsonia meriana
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Ross Turner (David)
Date observed:
12/09/2005 - 1:55pm
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