Month: November 2021

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Aristea ecklonii

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Aristea ecklonii. See image source here.

#34 They called me Aristea ecklonii, also known as Aristea lastii, and Aristea maitlandii. I pay homage to the male botanists Christian Friedrich Ecklon, Last (I couldn’t find his records), and Maitland (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1877.

Native to Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, KwaZulu-Natal, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.

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Iris hartwegii

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Iris hartwegii. See image source here.

#33 They called me Iris hartwegii, also known as Limniris hartwegii, and Iris hartwegii subsp. hartwegii. I pay homage to the male botanist Karl Theodor Hartweg. They first catalogued me in 1876.

Native to California.

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Gladiolus crassifolius

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Gladiolus crassifolius. See image source here.

#32 They called me Gladiolus crassifolius, also known as Gladiolus junodii, Gladiolus thomsonii, Gladiolus conrathii, and Gladiolus dieterlenii. I pay homage to the male botanists Junod (I couldn’t find his records), Conrath (I couldn’t find his records), Dieterlen (I couldn’t find his records), and George Thomson, or Charles Wyville Thomson. They first catalogued me in 1876.

Native to Angola, Cape Provinces, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Swaziland, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe.