Species Wahlenbergia rubioides
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Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Wahlenbergia:
For Georg Göran Wahlenberg (1780–1851), Swedish naturalist, geographer and doctor, who became a demonstrator in botany (1815–1828) and professor of botany at the University of Uppsala (1828–1851), succeeding Carl Peter Thunberg. Wahlenberg made his main work in the field of plant geography, and published, among other things the Flora Lapponica (1812), a considerably extended version of the work of his compatriot Linnaeus, who wrote a publication of the same name (1737). His other works were based on his trips to Norway, Finland and the plant world of northernmost Sweden. Wahlenberg was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1808.
Etymology of rubioides:
Resembling members of the genus Rubia
Scientific name:
Wahlenbergia rubioides (Banks ex A. DC.) Lammers
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Synonym of:
Unknown
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Protologue:
Taxon 44(3): 337 (1995)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1995
Sprawling to prostrate, often diffuse, shrublet to 30 cm. Leaves alternate or opposite, reflexed, lanceolate, channelled, occ. flat, lightly toothed below. Flowers in the upper axils on slender pedicels, white, c. 5 mm diam., tube c. 1 mm long, ovary half-inferior, roughly hairy. Dec.--Mar. High rocky slopes, NW, SW, LB, SE (Gifberg to Tsitisikamma Mts).
Observations of Taxon
Wahlenbergia rubioides
Name of observer:
Riaan de Villiers (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown