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Genus Pearsonia
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Range:
Location unknown
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Short etymology:
For Henry Harold Welch Pearson (1870–1916), British-born South African botanist and the first director of the former National Botanical Institute of Southern Africa. He worked at the Cambridge herbarium, was a professor of botany at the South African College, Cape Town (now the University of Cape Town), a plant collector and botanical explorer and founder and honorary director of the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in Cape Town. He was a Fellow of the Linnaean and Royal societies and made several expeditions to South-West Africa (now Namibia) to study the monotypic Welwitschia.
Scientific name:
Pearsonia Dummer
Etymology source:
Localities:
Global vulnerability:
NE
Synonym of:
Unknown
Protologue:
J. Bot. 50: 353 (1912)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1912
Observations of Taxon
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Pearsonia cajanifolia subsp. cajanifolia
Name of observer:
Sasa Malan (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Collection:
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Pearsonia sessilifolia
Name of observer:
Sasa Malan (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Collection:
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Pearsonia aristata
Locality:
Name of observer:
Janet M. Gibson (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
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Pearsonia grandifolia
Locality:
Name of observer:
Janet M. Gibson (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
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Pearsonia cajanifolia subsp. cajanifolia
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
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