Species Harveya capensis
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Etymology of Harveya:
For William Henry Harvey (1811–1866), Irish-born botanist, algologist and pioneer of South African systematic botany, colonial treasurer general of the Cape Colony, keeper of the herbarium at Trinity College, Dublin, professor of botany for the Royal Dublin Society and at Trinity College, Dublin, and Fellow of the Linnaean and Royal societies. He came to the Cape in 1834, aged 23, and stayed about four years. He wrote The Genera of South African Plants (1838), Manual of British Algae (1841), Phycologia Britannica (1846–1851), Phycologia Australica (1858–1863) and was co-author, with Dr OW Sonder of Hamburg, of the first three volumes of Flora Capensis (1860–1865). He collected along the Atlantic coast of the United States and Australia and Tasmania in the South Seas.
Etymology of capensis:
From the Cape Province of South Africa, previously known as the Cape Colony. -ensis is a Latin adjectival suffix meaning “pertaining to or “originating in,” Thus these organisms were first discovered in the Cape. In the early days of exploration this epithet was frequently applied to anywhere in South Africa or even Southern Africa
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Protologue:
Hooker's Icon. Pl. 1: t.118 (1837)
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Year published:
1837
Observations of Taxon
Harveya capensis
Name of observer:
Anne Bean & Amida Johns (David)
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Harveya capensis
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Name of observer:
Amida Johns (David)
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Harveya capensis
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Name of observer:
Pauline Bohnen (David)
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Harveya capensis
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Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
07/02/2020 - 10:01am
Collection:
Harveya capensis
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Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
17/11/2012 - 2:26pm