Stable identifiers
Herbarium #
B 10 0672946
Collection #
B-Phanerogamae
Stored under taxon name
Dysphania atriplicifolia (Spreng.) G. Kadereit, Sukhor. & Uotila
Family
Chenopodiaceae
Det./rev./conf./assigned
P. Uotila 2024-10
Ident. history
orig. Cycloloma platiphyllum [platyphyllum]; staff B: = Cycloloma atriplicifolium; P. Uotila 2024-10: Dysphania atriplicifolia
Collector
Wiest,A.
Date
1834
Location
Egypt / Al Qāhirah | 30.05333, 31.23083
Label
Orient, Cairo [30°03'12.2"N 31°13'51.0"E]
Habitat
Habitus
Annotations
Herbar Baschant (Rudolf Baschant, 1897 - 1955) ;
record published 2024 in: https://doi.org/10.7320/FlMedit34.257
[collector: Johann Anton Mathias Wiest (* 26. September 1801 in Altdorf Austria; † 5. oder 9. Mai 1835 in Kairo);
the Württemberg Natural History Travel Association commissioned him to undertake a research trip to Egypt and Arabia with Wilhelm Schimper. There both were supposed to collect still unexplored plants and seeds, identify them and send them dried to Germany. Despite reported fighting in Egypt and plague in Constantinople, both ventured from Trieste in 1834. After a storm and shipwreck, rescue and a stay on the Greek island of Cephalonia, they landed in Alexandria, where the plague was raging, and reached Cairo by water. On the way, the two researchers collected plants and expanded this collection activity around Cairo, even though hordes of robbers were roaming around.
After differences of opinion, Wiest and Schimper separated. Anton Wiest sent around 5,000 plants to Germany from Cairo. Now the plague broke out in Cairo too. Wiest still treated sick people. He himself died on May 8, 1835. [from the german version of Wikipedia, 2024]]
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