Month: April 2022

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Vitis vinifera

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Vitis vinifera. See image source here.

#206 They called me Vitis vinifera, also known as Vitis guilelmii, and Vitis gmelinii. I pay homage to the male botanists Guilelm (I couldn’t find his records), and Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Johann Georg Gmelin, Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, or Carl Christian Gmelin. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kirgizstan, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Palestine, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and Yugoslavia.

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Dierama galpinii

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Dierama galpinii. See image source here.

#205 They called me Dierama galpinii. I pay homage to the male botanist Ernest Edward Galpin. They first catalogued me in 1929.

Native to KwaZulu-Natal, Northern Provinces, and Swaziland.

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Isolepis inundata

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Isolepis inundata. See image source here.

#204 They called me Isolepis inundata, also known as Isolepis gunnii. I pay homage to the male botanist Ronald Campbell Gunn. They first catalogued me in 1810.

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