Species Hermannia pillansii
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Etymology of Hermannia:
For Paul Hermann (1646–1695), German-born Dutch physician and botanist. He graduated in medicine at the universities of Leiden and Padua, became a ship’s medical officer (1672–1677) for the Dutch East India Company and went to Sri Lanka via the Cape, where he made the first known herbarium collection of local plants, now housed in the Sloane Herbarium, British Museum of Natural History and at Oxford. In 1679 he became professor of botany at the University of Leiden and director of the Hortus Botanicus in Leiden, Europe’s finest botanical garden. His 1687 publication Horti Academici Lugduno-Batavi Catalogus includes 34 Cape plants, and his proposed Prodomus Plantaerum Africanarum was to contain 791 items, but untimely death intervened.
Etymology of pillansii:
Named after Capetonian botanist Neville Stuart Pillans (1884-1964). He joined the staff at Bolus herbarium in 1918 and worked there till his retirement. He had a penchance for succulents and did Monographs of the Restionaceae, Bruniaceae, Phylica, Agathosma and Metalasia. He also did some work on the genus Hermannia, but gave up two years before his death.
Scientific name:
Hermannia pillansii Compton
Synonym of:
Unknown
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Protologue:
Trans. Roy. Soc. South Africa 19: 300 (1931)
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Year published:
1931
Observations of Taxon
Hermannia pillansii
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
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Hermannia pillansii
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
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Hermannia pillansii
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
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Hermannia pillansii
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Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
05/06/2020 - 3:43pm
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Hermannia pillansii
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Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
05/06/2020 - 1:49pm
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