Tagged: marloth PicturesList 01 The plant · 10 Oct 2026 In 1911 a botanist presented the rooibos shrub as a new species In a paper read in May 1911, Rudolf Marloth described the rooibos shrub as a new species, Borbonia pinifolia, though Nicolaas Burman had named the plant in 1768. Nothing filed under this topic yet.