Species within a genus

Genus: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

BOLUSAFRA (La)
Tar Pea (Wf) Teer-Ertjie (Le)
Family: FABACEAE

For Harry Bolus F.L.S. (1834 – 1911),** English-born South African botanist, businessman, and founder of the Cape Town Bolus Herbarium, Fellow of the Linnean Society, and member and president of the South African Philosophical Society (later the Royal Society of South Africa). He bequeathed his library, his extensive herbarium and most of his fortune to the South African College for which he also founded a chair of botany.
-afra, = pertaining to Africa.
(Ch, BL)

Bolusafra bituminosa (La)
Tar Pea (Wf)
Location: (F, K)

bitumen, = bitumen;
-osus, = indicates abundance or full or marked development.
bituminosus, = abounding in bitumen, bituminous.
(coal black)

(ld, BL)