Species Cliffortia ruscifolia
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Etymology of Cliffortia:
For George Clifford (1685–1760), Dutch merchant and banker, amateur botanist and zoologist. He was a director of the Dutch East India Company and owned a magnificent garden at Hartecamp, Netherlands, as well as a private zoo in Amsterdam. George Clifford is best known as a patron of the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus, whom he employed as ‘hortulanus’ and who catalogued the family’s unique collection of plants, herbarium and library. The result was Linnaeus’s 530-page book Hortus Cliffortianus (1738), his first important work, in which he described many species from Clifford’s garden. The publication was paid for by George Clifford as a private edition.
Etymology of ruscifolia:
With leaves resembling the genus Ruscus (Asparagaceae)
Scientific name:
Cliffortia ruscifolia L.
Common names:
Steekbos
Synonym of:
Unknown
Long etymology:
Synonym status:
Monoecious or dioecious shrub to 1.5 m. Leaves simple, pungent, vegetative leaves oblong-lanceolate, channelled, sparsely hairy, 10--12 mm long, fertile leaves shorter, tridentate, densely hairy. Flowers: male: pedicel 1--2 mm long, stamens c. 12; female: receptacle 3--4 mm long, ovoid, brownish, sulcate. Aug.--Oct. Rocky sandstone soils, NW, SW, KM, LB, SE (Bokkeveld Mts to Humansdorp).
Observations of Taxon
Cliffortia ruscifolia
Name of observer:
Annelise Le Roux and Zelda Wahl (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Collection:
Cliffortia ruscifolia
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Name of observer:
Mary Maytham Kidd (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Cliffortia ruscifolia
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Name of observer:
Riaan de Villiers (David)
Date observed:
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Cliffortia ruscifolia
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Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
27/11/2014 - 2:12pm
Collection:
Cliffortia ruscifolia
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
05/09/2015 - 12:48pm
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