Species Dioscorea dregeana
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There aren’t any identifications of Dioscorea dregeana.
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Etymology of Dioscorea:
For Pedanius Dioscorides, (c 40–90) Greek physician, whose Materia Medica, circulated in Latin, Greek, and Arabic, was the leading work of its kind throughout the Middle Ages and remains a major source of historical information relating to medicines used by the Greeks, Romans and other cultures.
Etymology of dregeana:
Commemorates the brothers Carl Friedrich Drege (1791-1867) and Johann Franz Drege (1794-1881) of Huguenot ancestry. Prodigious botanists and plant collectors in the Cape.’
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Unknown
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Protologue:
Consp. Fl. Afr. 5: 274 (1894)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1894
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Dioscorea dregeana.
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