Species Wahlenbergia tenella
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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 tenella:
From the Latin tenellus meaning ‘somewhat tender’
Scientific name:
Wahlenbergia tenella (L. f.) Lammers
Common names:
Synonym of:
Unknown
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Protologue:
Taxon 44(3): 338 (1995)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1995
Erect or sprawling shrublet to 80 cm. Leaves strongly recurved, ovate, margins thickened, occ. minutely toothed below. Flowers clustered in the upper axils or paniculate, white or blue, 5--8 mm diam., tube c. 1 mm long, ovary occ. hairy. Nov.--May. Sandy flats and slopes, often coastal, SW, AP, KM, LB, SE (Mamre to E Cape).
Observations of Taxon
Wahlenbergia tenella
Name of observer:
Anne Bean & Amida Johns (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown