Species Commelina eckloniana
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Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Commelina:
For Jan or Johannes Commelin (1629–1692) and his nephew Caspar Commelin (1667–1731), Dutch botanists, who wrote the two-volume work Horti medici amstelodamensis rariorum plantarum … descriptio et icones. Johannes Commelin opened the popular gardens in Amsterdam in 1682, initially called Hortus Medicus, but later Hortus Botanicus. He was a spice merchant who used his wealth and connections to build the Amsterdam botanical gardens into Europe’s leading centre for the study of botany in the late 17th century especially of exotic plants discovered by Europeans in the East Indies, Africa and the Americas. Commelin wrote much of the text for the aforementioned work and it was completed by his nephew Caspar Commelin (1667–1731) after this death.
Etymology of eckloniana:
Named after Christian Frederick Ecklon (1795-1868), a Danish apothecary, plant collector and traveller. His plant collecting trips were amongst the most noteworthy of the early plant collectors and many new species were described by him.
Scientific name:
Unknown
Synonym of:
Unknown
Long etymology:
Protologue:
Enum. Pl. (Kunth) 4: 57 (1843)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1843
Observations of Taxon
Commelina eckloniana
Name of observer:
Elsa Pooley (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown