Species Brunia microphylla
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Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Brunia:
For Alexander Brown (f 1692–1698), a naval surgeon and plant collector who worked for the East India Company around 1690 and collected in India, the Cape, Spain and Arabia, etc. sending specimens to Plukenet (1641–1706), an English botanist, royal professor of botany and gardener to Queen Mary; James Petiver (c 1665–1718) a London apothecary; Jacob Bobart (c 1665–1718) in Oxford and to Charles du Bois (1656–1740), an English merchant and botanist, treasurer of the East India Company. He amassed a vast herbarium of East Indian plants. No further details are known.
Etymology of microphylla:
From the Greek mikros = ‘small’ and phyllon = ‘leaf’.
Scientific name:
Brunia microphylla Thunb.
Synonym of:
Unknown
Long etymology:
Protologue:
Prodr. Pl. Cap. 2: 187 (1800)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1800
Observations of Taxon
Brunia
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
04/08/2017 - 2:04pm
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