Species Sutera subsessilis
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There aren’t any identifications of Sutera subsessilis.
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Sutera:
For Johann Rudolf Suter (1766–1827), Swiss physician, botanist, politician and professor. He studied classical philology and natural sciences at the University of Göttingen, PhD (1787), and philosophy and medicine at Mainz, MD (1794). He practised as a doctor in Zofingen until 1798. He became politically involved in the Jacobin Republic of Mainz, and later became a subprefect of the district of Zofingen, a member of the Canton of Aargau, and of the Switzerland’s Grand Council in the Helvetic government (1798–1800), belonging to the Reform Party. In 1802, he published his book on Swiss flora, Flora Helvetica, with the help of Johannes Hegetschweiler (1789–1839). In 1819 he became professor of philosophy, Greek literature and history at the Academy of Berne.
Etymology of subsessilis:
From the Latin ‘sessilis’ / ‘sessilis’ meaning ‘spreading’
Scientific name:
Sutera subsessilis Hilliard
Common names:
Synonym of:
Unknown
Protologue:
Edinburgh J. Bot. 48(3): 345 (1991)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1991
Tufted softly and glandular-hairy perennial to 35 cm. Leaves mostly entire, soft. Flowers axillary forming leafy racemes or narrow panicles, tube funnel-shaped, mauve with a yellow throat. Oct.--Dec. Sheltered places, often below rocks, NW (Cedarberg Mts).
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Sutera subsessilis.