Huernia kirkii
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Image details:
| Species id: | 146800 |
| Image id: | 1 |
| Image number: | 17472 |
| Photographer: | L Walter |
| Code 1 if image of a herbarium specimen: | 0 |
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| Code 1 if image not to be displayed: | 0 |
| Image notes: | Journal of SA Botany, Vol 32, Part 1, January 1966. L.C.Leach and D.C.H.Plowes. This is a detailed discussion of the misinterpretations of H. kirkii and H. hislopii. The specimen I (LW) provided to Mr. Leach was the first recorded in Zimbabwe, but was received too late for inclusion in the above article, which had already gone to press. LW adds: Captain and Mrs Palfrey lived in one of the remotest areas of the country - inaccessible during the rains - on the border with Mozambique. He had been awarded the M.C. during WW1. Mrs Palfrey somehow discovered that I had a weakness for scones with strawberry jam and cream, and whenever I visited (unannounced) they would miraculously appear ! A wonderful old couple. |
Record details:
| Record id: | 60144 |
| Date: | Jan 1966 |
| Recorder(s): | L Walter |
| Collector(s): | |
| Determiner(s): | L Walter |
| Confirmer(s): | |
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| Habitat: | Poor stony soil with scrubby mopane and stunted ironwoods. Full sun. |
| Location: | Near Palfrey's Store |
| Location code(s): | |
| Outing code: | |
| Planted code: | Not planted |
| Country: | Zimbabwe |
| Quarter Degree Square: | 2231A4 |
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| FZ divisions: | S |
| Altitude (metres): | 216 |
| Notes: | Journal of SA Botany, Vol 32, Part 1, January 1966. L.C.Leach and D.C.H.Plowes. This is a detailed discussion of the misinterpretations of H. kirkii and H. hislopii. The specimen I (LW) provided to Mr. Leach was the first recorded in Zimbabwe, but was received too late for inclusion in the above article, which had already gone to press. LW adds: Captain and Mrs Palfrey lived in one of the remotest areas of the country - inaccessible during the rains - on the border with Mozambique. He had been awarded the M.C. during WW1. Mrs Palfrey somehow discovered that I had a weakness for scones with strawberry jam and cream, and whenever I visited (unannounced) they would miraculously appear ! A wonderful old couple. |
| Latitude, Longitude: | -22.283300, 31.466670 |
| Location accuracy code: | 6 |