Species Rafnia angulata
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Range:
Location unknown
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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 angulata:
From the Latin ‘angulata’ / ‘angulatus’ meaning ‘angled’
Scientific name:
Rafnia angulata Thunb.
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Synonym status:
Virgate or procumbent shrublet to 2.2 m. Leaves unifoliolate, alternate, occ. opposite on flowering branches, ericoid or linear or obovate. Flowers solitary, occ. to 6 in pseudo-racemes, keel rostrate, calyx lobes triangular to narrowly triangular, c. as long as or longer than the tube. Pods obliquely oblanceolate or obliquely lanceolate. Mainly Sept.--Mar. Stony slopes, 0--2 200 m, NW, SW, KM, LB (Bokkeveld to Swartberg Mts).
Observations of Taxon
Rafnia angulata
Name of observer:
Hilda Mason (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Collection:
Rafnia angulata
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Name of observer:
Mary Maytham Kidd (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Rafnia angulata
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Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
08/02/2012 - 2:19pm
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