Species Oldenlandia herbacea
Pictures from Observations
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Oldenlandia:
For Heinrich (Hendrik) Bernhard Oldenland (Oldeland) (c 1663–1697), German-born South African botanist and plant collector. He studied medicine at Leiden University under Paul Hermann (1646–1695) before coming to the Cape in 1688. He was the compiler of the first plant list at the Cape. He went on an expedition to near Aberdeen, Eastern Cape (1689), at the time the most easterly point explored. He served the government in various capacities: master-gardener of the Company’s Garden, land surveyor and the equivalent of town-engineer (superintendent of streets, roads, bridges, buildings). He compiled the 13-volume Herbarus Vivus consisting of 380 indigenous plants with a second list of exotic plants. He was working on a kruidboek of dried and mounted plants when he died.
Etymology of herbacea:
From the Latin ‘herbacea’ / ‘herbaceus’ meaning ‘grassy’
Scientific name:
Oldenlandia herbacea (L.) Roxb.
Localities:
Synonym of:
Unknown
Protologue:
Hort. Bengal. 11 (1814); Fl. Ind. (Roxburgh) 1: 445 (1820)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1814
Observations of Taxon
Oldenlandia herbacea
Name of observer:
Sasa Malan (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Collection:
Oldenlandia herbacea
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown