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Babiana Pygmaea
''Babiana pygmaea'' is a perennial plant of about high that annually forms leaves and flowers from an underground corm that is assigned to the Iridaceae, iris family. It has bowl-shaped, pale yellow flowers with six perianth lobes, purplish in its heart, emerging from a cylindrical tube, and lance-shaped, pleated and heary leafblades that are almost at a right angle with the sheaths. The species can be found in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is called geelbobbejaantjie in Afrikaans. Description Geelbobbejaantjie is a geophyte with an egg-shaped, underground corm from which annually the leaves and stems appear above ground, forming a plant of about high including the leaves. The stem is upright, seldomly branched and covered in velvety hairs. The Leaf#Morphology, leaf blades are pleated, softly hairy and lance-shaped wide. The blade sits at an almost right angle atop a sheath that envelops the sheaths of higher leaves. The unscented flowers sit with two to five ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolaas Laurens Burman
Nicolaas Laurens Burman (27 December 1734 – 11 September 1793) was a Dutch botanist. He was the son of Johannes Burman (1707–1780). He succeeded his father to the chair of botany at the Athenaeum Illustre of Amsterdam., and at the Hortus Botanicus (Amsterdam), Hortus Botanicus. He continued the correspondence with Carl Linnaeus, joining him at the University of Uppsala in 1760. He is the author of numerous works including ''Specimen botanicum de geraniis'' (1759) and ''Flora Indica'' (1768) which was later completed by Johann Gerhard Koenig (1728–1785). Works * References * 1734 births 1793 deaths 18th-century Dutch botanists Scientists from Amsterdam University of Amsterdam faculty Age of Liberty people {{Netherlands-botanist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
