Species Hippocratea verticillata
Pictures from Observations
There aren’t any identifications of Hippocratea verticillata.
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Hippocratea:
For Hippocrates of Kos (Cos) (c. 460–370 BCE), Greek physician, contemporary of Herodotus, Thucydides, Socrates and Plato, father of Western medicine, pharmaceutical botanist and founder of the Hippocratic School of Medicine and the Hippocratic Oath, although evidence suggests this was written after his death. Hippocrates is credited with being the first person to believe that diseases were caused naturally, the product of environmental factors, diet and living habits.
Etymology of verticillata:
From the Latin verticillatus = 'having whorls', referring to the arrangement of the leaves upon the stem that radiate from a single point
Scientific name:
Hippocratea verticillata Steud.
Synonym of:
Unknown
Long etymology:
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Hippocratea verticillata.