Species Wahlenbergia tysonii

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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 tysonii:

For William Tyson (1851–1920), Jamaican-born South African botanist, plant collector, schoolteacher. He taught in various South African schools (1874–1887), joined the forestry department as secretary to the superintendent (1888–1892), and became librarian and sub-editor of the Agricultural Journal for the agricultural department (1893–1904).

Scientific name:

Wahlenbergia tysonii Zahlbr.

Synonym of:

Wahlenbergia rivularis

Long etymology:

He was a main contributor to the Herbarium Normale Austro-Africanum organised by Bolus and MacOwan. On his retirement, he disposed of his phanerogam herbarium to the Cape government, and his personal set of marine algae to the Bolus Herbarium. In 1919, he was contracted to collect 10 sets of phanerogams for the Botanical Society, but took ill on the first collecting expedition to Coffee Bay and died shortly thereafter. He was a Fellow of the Linnaean Society.

Authors:

Zahlbr.

Protologue:

Ann. K. K. Naturhist. Hofmus. 18: 403 (1903)

Synonym status:

Heterotypic synonym

Year published:

1903