Species within a genus

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ARISTEA (G, La)
Aristea, Blousuurkanol (Le)
Family: IRIDACEAE

aristos, aristo-, = best of its kind.
aristeia, = the prize of the bravest.
-eus, = indicates material or colour or resemblance in quality.
(aristos, best, noblest or aristeia, excellence or prize to the best and bravest)
(LS, ld, BL, Le)

Aristea zeyheri
Grassy-leaved Aristea (Vo)
Location: (F)

After Carl Ludwig Phillip Zeyher (1799-1858),** German botanist and botanical collector, a well-known German naturalist who collected plants in South Africa. Zeyher came to the Cape in 1822, was a botanist at the Botanical Garden there, published Enumeratio plantarum Africae Australis with Christian Friedrich Ecklon (c.f. eckloneana), and died of smallpox.
(Ch)