Genus Stangeria
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For William Stanger (1811–1854), English physician, geologist and first surveyor general of Natal. He survived the ill-fated Niger expedition under Captain H Trotter (1841), came to the Cape in 1843, moved to Natal in 1845, and produced the first accurate map of Natal in 1850. When he went to England in 1851, he gave a Dr NB Ward a live fern-like plant that later produced a cone. The English botanist T Moore described this new cycad Stangeria paradoxa, a reference to the confusion with ferns. The German botanist Otto Kuntze had previously described this plant as a ‘fern’, Lomaria eriopus, in 1839. This was inadmissible under the rules of botanical nomenclature, and the French botanist Henri Baillon renamed it Stangeria eriopus in 1892.