Species within a genus

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DIMORPHOTHECA (G)
African Daisy (Wf) Magriet (Le)
Family: ASTERACEAE

di-, = two;
dis-, = twice, double;
morphe, = form, shape, figure;
[See Morpheus**]
thece, = a case to put anything in, a box, chest.
(two distinct types of fruit in the same species: ray florets have wings, 3-angled fruit and disc florets have flattened, 2-winged fruit)
(LS, Le)

Dimorphotheca walliana (La)

Location: (K)

For Eric Torsten Selim Wall (1871-1959),** plant collector in South Africa, and elsewhere. He travelled with Adolf Hjalmar Frederick Hafström in a car driven by the South African botanist John Phillip Harrison Acocks on their extensive botanical explorations in South Africa and Rhodesia;
-anus, = belonging to, connected with, pertaining to, used to form adjectives from nouns, particularly from geographical and personal names.
(Ch, BL)