Species Rafnia capensis
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Etymology of Rafnia:
For Carl (Karl) Gottlob Rafn (1769–1808), Danish civil servant, botanist and science writer. He studied medicine and botany at the University of Copenhagen in 1788, and later veterinary science, but did not take the exams. He had a range of jobs such as an agriculture assessor and director of a distillery, but his main interests were natural history and science. He authored or co-authored a range of publications, including the Flora of Denmarks and Holstein, a book on plant physiology (1798), a paper on animal hibernation with JD Herholdt, and a book on life-saving measures for drowning persons. He became a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences in 1798.
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
Scientific name:
Rafnia capensis (L.) Schinz
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Erect to prostrate shrublet to 1 m. Leaves unifoliolate, alternate to opposite on flowering branches, linear to orbicular. Flowers solitary or crowded, wings smooth, keel obtuse to c. rostrate and often subapically lobed, calyx lobes triangular to narrowly triangular, upper lobes broader than the others. Pods stipitate, oblong to broadly oblong or obliquely lanceolate. All year. Stony flats and slopes, 0--2 000 m, NW, SW, AP, KM, LB, SE (Bokkeveld Mts to Swartberg Mts).
Observations of Taxon
Rafnia capensis subsp. pedicellata
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Anne Bean & Amida Johns (David)
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Rafnia capensis
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Pauline Bohnen (David)
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Rafnia capensis subsp. pedicellata
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Amida Johns (David)
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Rafnia capensis
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Maarten Groos (David)
Date observed:
22/06/2008 - 2:38pm
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Rafnia capensis
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Maarten Groos (David)
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16/10/2005 - 6:31pm
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