Species Dodonaea viscosa
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Etymology of Dodonaea:
For Rembert Dodoens (or Rembertus Dodonaeus) (1517–1585), Flemish physician and herbalist. He studied medicine, cosmography and geography at the University of Leuven, worked mainly as a physician, but was court physician to the Austrian emperor Rudolph II in Vienna from 1575–1578 and professor of medicine at Leiden University in 1582. He was a prolific writer and one of the foremost botanists of his day, with 12 major publications to his name. Dodoens’s Cruydeboeck, a reference book about herbs with 715 images (1554), was the most translated book of that time after the Bible. It was translated into French, English and Latin, and became a work of worldwide renown used as a reference book for two centuries.
Etymology of viscosa:
From the Latin viscosus = ‘sticky’
Scientific name:
Dodonaea viscosa (L.) Jacq.
Common names:
Varnishleaf
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Protologue:
Enum. Syst. Pl. 19 (1760); Select. Stirp. Amer. Hist. 109 (1763); Mant. Pl. Altera 228 (1771)
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Year published:
1760
Observations of Taxon
Dodonaea viscosa
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Collection:
Dodonaea viscosa var. angustifolia
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
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Dodonaea viscosa
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Name of observer:
Joan van Gogh (David)
Date observed:
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Dodonaea viscosa
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Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
28/02/2018 - 2:46pm
Collection:
Dodonaea viscosa
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Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
28/02/2018 - 12:55pm
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