Month: March 2022

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Tabebuia heterophylla

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Tabebuia heterophylla. See image source here.

#176 They called me Tabebuia heterophylla, also known as Tabebuia curtissii, Tabebuia lindahlii, and Tecoma eggersii. I pay homage to the male botanists Curtiss (I couldn’t find his records), Lindahl (I couldn’t find his records), and Henrik Franz Alexander von Eggers. They first catalogued me in 1915.

Native to Bahamas, Cayman Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Trinidad-Tobago, and Windward Is..

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Caladenia carnea

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Caladenia carnea. See image source here.

#175 They called me Caladenia carnea, also known as Caladenia atkinsonii. I pay homage to the male botanist George Francis Atkinson, or William Sackston Atkinson. They first catalogued me in 1810.

Native to Antipodean Is., Chatham Is., New Caledonia, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, and Victoria.

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Lolium rigidum

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Lolium rigidum. See image source here.

#174 They called me Lolium rigidum, also known as Lolium scholzii, and Lolium husnotii. I pay homage to the male botanists Scholz (I couldn’t find his records), and Pierre Tranquille Husnot. They first catalogued me in 1811.

Native to Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Bulgaria, Canary Is., China North-Central, China Southeast, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Egypt, France, Greece, Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kriti, Krym, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Mauritania, Morocco, North Caucasus, Pakistan, Palestine, Portugal, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Spain, Switzerland, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, West Himalaya, Western Sahara, Yemen, and Yugoslavia.