Species within a genus

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DRIMIA (G)
Poison Squill (Le)
Family: HYACINTHACEAE

drimus, = piercing, stinging, biting, pungent;
-ius, = means ‘characteristic of’, hence indicates connexion or resemblance.
(all parts of plant sometimes poisonous or an irritant)
(LS, BL, Le)

Drimia salteri

Location: (P)

For Terence Macleane Salter (1883-1969),** British botanist, traveler, Royal Navy paymaster who was stationed at Simonstown and remained in South Africa thereafter, worked at the Bolus Herbarium 1930-1960, prolific plant collector in South Africa, co-editor of The Genus Oxalis in South Africa and Flora of the Cape Peninsula.
(Ch)