Species Denekia capensis
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Location unknown
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Etymology of Denekia:
For Carl Henry Deneke (1735–1803), German botanist and surgeon who studied in Stockholm, Uppsala, Germany, France and England. He was a member of the Surgical Society of 1766, regimental surgeon to Suomenlinna, a group of six islands now part of the city of Helsinki, Finland, from 1768–1772, and occupied himself with ophthalmology, and military medicine in Finland from 1789–1790. He was a friend of the genus’s author, Swedish naturalist and botanist Carl Peter Thunberg.
Etymology of capensis:
From the Cape Province of South Africa, previously known as the Cape Colony. -ensis is a Latin adjectival suffix meaning “pertaining to or “originating in,” Thus these organisms were first discovered in the Cape. In the early days of exploration this epithet was frequently applied to anywhere in South Africa or even Southern Africa
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Protologue:
Prodr. Pl. Cap. 2: 153 (1800)
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Year published:
1800
Observations of Taxon
Denekia capensis
Name of observer:
Braam van Wyk and Sasa Malan (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Collection:
Denekia capensis
Name of observer:
Braam van Wyk and Sasa Malan (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Collection:
Denekia capensis
Locality:
Name of observer:
Janet M. Gibson (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Denekia capensis
Name of observer:
Braam van Wyk and Sasa Malan (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Denekia capensis
Name of observer:
Braam van Wyk and Sasa Malan (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown