Month: November 2021

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Gladiolus ecklonii

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Gladiolus ecklonii. See image source here.

#43 They called me Gladiolus ecklonii. I pay homage to the male botanist Christian Friedrich Ecklon. They first catalogued me in 1836.

Native to Cape Provinces, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Northern Provinces, and Swaziland.

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Aethionema arabicum

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Aethionema arabicum. See image source here.

#42 They called me Aethionema arabicum, also known as Aethionema buxbaumii, and Thlaspi buxbaumii. I pay homage to the male botanist Franz Buxbaum. They first catalogued me in 1821.

Native to Bulgaria, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, Transcaucasus, Turkey, and Turkey-in-Europe.

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Phillyrea latifolia

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Phillyrea latifolia. See image source here.

#41 They called me Phillyrea latifolia, also known as Phillyrea latifolia subsp. daninii, Phillyrea latifolia var. rodriguezii, Phillyrea trabutii, Phillyrea angustifolia subsp. rodriguezii, Phillyrea cadevallii, Phillyrea jahandiezii, and Phillyrea latifolia subsp. rodriguezii. I pay homage to the male botanists Danin (I couldn’t find his records), Águedo Marrero Rodriguez, Trabut (I couldn’t find his records), Cadevall (I couldn’t find his records), and Jahandiez (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Albania, Algeria, Baleares, Bulgaria, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, and Yugoslavia.