Species Bowkeria cymosa
Pictures from Observations
Range:
Location unknown
{"type":"FeatureCollection","features":[]}
Etymology of Bowkeria:
For James Henry Bowker (1822–1900), South African naturalist and army colonel who took part in the seventh and eighth Cape Frontier Wars (1846–1853). He became an authority on butterflies collected in the Eastern Cape and elsewhere (including plants) together with his artist sister, Mary Elizabeth Barber née Bowker (1818–1899), a noted botanist and entomologist who corresponded regularly with Joseph and William Hooker at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and Charles Darwin. She sent many plant specimens, many previously unknown, to the herbarium of Trinity College, Dublin and Kew Gardens. She authored scientific papers on botany and entomology and general articles in many fields, including stone-age implements. The Bowkeria name commemorates them both.
Etymology of cymosa:
From the Latin cymosus = 'cymose' - an arrangement of flowers in a cyme which is an inflorescence in which the primary axis bears a single terminal flower which develops first, the inflorescence being continued by secondary, tertiary, and other axes
Scientific name:
Unknown
Synonym of:
Unknown
Long etymology:
Protologue:
J. Linn. Soc. Bot. xxv. 390 (1896)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1896
Observations of Taxon
Bowkeria cymosa
Name of observer:
Richard Boon (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown