Species Aristea cyanea
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There aren’t any identifications of Aristea cyanea.
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Aristea:
From the Latin arista meaning "point, ear of grain." The leaf is invariably pointed.
Etymology of cyanea:
From the Latin cyanea = 'dark blue' or 'sea blue'
Scientific name:
Aristea cyanea Sol.
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Long etymology:
Named in honour of Swedish botanist Georg (Goran) Wahlenberg (1780 – 1851). Wahlenberg succeeded Carl Peter Thunberg as chair of Medicine and Botany, the same chair held in the previous century by Carl Linnaeus. Professor of Medicine and Botany at Uppsala University, he studied homeopathy and becoming convinced of its truth, became the first person to introduce homeopathy into Sweden.
Protologue:
Hortus Kew., ed. 2 1: 67
Synonym status:
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Aristea cyanea.