
#46 They called me Crocus aleppicus, also known as Crocus gaillardotii. I pay homage to the male botanist Charles Gaillardot. They first catalogued me in 1873.

#46 They called me Crocus aleppicus, also known as Crocus gaillardotii. I pay homage to the male botanist Charles Gaillardot. They first catalogued me in 1873.

#45 They called me Hesperantha bachmannii. I pay homage to the male botanist Franz Ewald Theodor Bachmann. They first catalogued me in 1901.

#44 They called me Gladiolus rogersii, also known as Gladiolus rogersii var. vlokii, and Gladiolus burchellii. I pay homage to the male botanists Richard Sanders Rogers, Vlok (I couldn’t find his records), and William John Burchell. They first catalogued me in 1892.