Species Pearsonia grandifolia
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Etymology of Pearsonia:
For Henry Harold Welch Pearson (1870–1916), British-born South African botanist and the first director of the former National Botanical Institute of Southern Africa. He worked at the Cambridge herbarium, was a professor of botany at the South African College, Cape Town (now the University of Cape Town), a plant collector and botanical explorer and founder and honorary director of the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in Cape Town. He was a Fellow of the Linnaean and Royal societies and made several expeditions to South-West Africa (now Namibia) to study the monotypic Welwitschia.
Etymology of grandifolia:
From the Latin grandis = 'large' and folius = 'leaf'; referring to the size of the leaf
Scientific name:
Pearsonia grandifolia (Bolus) Polhill
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Observations of Taxon
Pearsonia grandifolia
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Name of observer:
Janet M. Gibson (David)
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Pearsonia grandifolia
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
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