Month: May 2022

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Pericallis webbii

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Pericallis webbii. See image source here.

#216 They called me Pericallis webbii, also known as Senecio webbii, and Doronicum webbii. I pay homage to the male botanist Colin James Webb, or Philip Barker Webb. They first catalogued me in 1860.

Native to Canary Is..

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Melica imperfecta

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Melica imperfecta. See image source here.

#215 They called me Melica imperfecta, also known as Melica parishii. I pay homage to the male botanist Charles Samuel Pollock Parish. They first catalogued me in 1836.

Native to Arizona, California, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Northwest, and Nevada.

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Duranta erecta

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#214 They called me Duranta erecta, also known as Duranta repens var. lopez-palacii, Duranta baumgartenii, and Duranta repens var. mutisii. I pay homage to the male botanists Lopez-palac (I couldn’t find his records), Johann Christian Gottlob Baumgarten, and José Celestino Bruno Mutis. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Arizona, Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil West-Central, California, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Galápagos, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..