Species Ehrharta ramosa
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Etymology of Ehrharta:
For Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742–1795), Swiss-born German botanist and naturalist. He studied botany at Uppsala University (1773–1775) under the guidance of Linnaeus, before returning to Hanover where Linnaeus’s son was director of the Botanical Garden. Ehrhart was one of the first botanists to publish exsiccatae (= plant collections, precisely identified, named and labeled), for various botanists or institutions. From 1780–1793 he produced seven series of these exsiccatae, each of about 1 620 species. He also had his own general collection (Hortus siccus) of about 3 300 plant species. A set of these collections are kept in the herbarium of Moscow University. He was supposedly the first person to use the rank of subspecies in botanical nomenclature.
Etymology of ramosa:
From the Latin ramosus meaning ‘branched’ or 'full of branches'. Can refer to either a branched plant or a branched inflorescence.
Scientific name:
Ehrharta ramosa (Thunb.) Thunb.
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Rigid, branching perennial to 1 m. Leaves linear-lanceolate, flat, short-lived or absent. Spikelets in a raceme-like panicle or raceme, green or whitish, glumes shorter to longer than spikelet, sterile lemmas smooth, glabrous, truncate to mucronate, the second with a pair of ear-like, basal appendages. Sept.--Jan. Mountain slopes, NW, SW, KM, LB, SE (Cedarberg Mts to Uitenhage).
Observations of Taxon
Ehrharta ramosa
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Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
05/12/2016 - 4:22pm
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Ehrharta ramosa
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Guthrie Herbarium (David)
Date observed:
05/12/2016 - 6:22pm
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