Species Wurmbea spicata
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Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Wurmbea:
For Christoph Carl Friedrich von Wurmb (1742–1782), Saxony-born German naturalist and Dutch colonial administrator, who worked in Indonesia (Java) as a merchant in the service of the United East India Company. Later, in 1778, he moved to Batavia, where he became the first secretary and director of the Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen (Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences) in charge of its library and small botanical garden, donated by a member. A keen naturalist – he had a special interest in palm trees – Wurmb was the first traveller to publish accurate observations on the Bornean orangutan in its adult state (it had never before been seen at that time and initially thought to be a new species). He called this animal ‘Pongo’, named after the Mpongwe nation.
Etymology of spicata:
From the Latin spicatus = ‘spiked’
Scientific name:
Wurmbea spicata (Burm. f.) T. Durand & Schinz
Common names:
Witkoppie
Synonym of:
Unknown
Long etymology:
Synonym status:
Cormous geophyte, 5--20 cm. Leaves narrowly lanceolate. Flowers white to cream, sometimes with dark margins, tube shorter than the tepals. Aug.--Nov. Mostly clay and granite slopes in renosterveld, NW, SW, KM, LB (Bokkeveld Mts to Swellendam).
Observations of Taxon
Wurmbea spicata
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Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
01/09/2013 - 1:16pm
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Wurmbea spicata
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Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
17/10/2005 - 1:53pm
Collection:
Wurmbea spicata
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
13/10/2006 - 6:36pm
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