Species Pearsonia sessilifolia
Pictures from Observations
Range:
Location unknown
{"type":"FeatureCollection","features":[]}
Etymology of Pearsonia:
For Henry Harold Welch Pearson (1870–1916), British-born South African botanist and the first director of the former National Botanical Institute of Southern Africa. He worked at the Cambridge herbarium, was a professor of botany at the South African College, Cape Town (now the University of Cape Town), a plant collector and botanical explorer and founder and honorary director of the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in Cape Town. He was a Fellow of the Linnaean and Royal societies and made several expeditions to South-West Africa (now Namibia) to study the monotypic Welwitschia.
Etymology of sessilifolia:
From the Latin sessilis = 'sitting' and folius = 'leaf'; meaning the leaf sits directly on the stem without a stalk
Scientific name:
Pearsonia sessilifolia (Harv.) Dummer
Synonym of:
Unknown
Long etymology:
Synonym status:
Observations of Taxon
Pearsonia sessilifolia
Name of observer:
Sasa Malan (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Collection:
Pearsonia sessilifolia
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Pearsonia sessilifolia
Locality:
Name of observer:
Barbra Jeppe (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Pearsonia
Locality:
Name of observer:
Barbra Jeppe (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Pearsonia sessilifolia subsp. sessilifolia
Locality:
Name of observer:
Barbra Jeppe (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown