Month: August 2022

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Paspalum repens

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Paspalum repens. See image source here.

#317 They called me Paspalum repens, also known as Paspalum frankii. I pay homage to the male botanist Albert Bernhard Frank. They first catalogued me in 1772.

Native to Alabama, Argentina Northeast, Arkansas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Illinois, Indiana, Jamaica, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mexico Southeast, Mississippi, Missouri, Nicaragua, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, South Carolina, Suriname, Tennessee, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, Virginia, and West Virginia.

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Poa trivialis

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Poa trivialis. See image source here.

#316 They called me Poa trivialis, also known as Poa schultesii, Poa kitaibelii, Poa perouinii, Poa portalii, Poa woronowii, Poa villarsii, and Poa janczewskii. I pay homage to the male botanists Schultes (I couldn’t find his records), Pál Kitaibel, Perouin (I couldn’t find his records), Portal (I couldn’t find his records), Woronow (I couldn’t find his records), Villars (I couldn’t find his records), and Janczewsk (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Canary Is., Central European Rus, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Finland, France, Føroyar, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuril Is., Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Magadan, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, North Caucasus, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Romania, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Sicilia, South European Russi, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Xinjiang, and Yugoslavia.

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Tillandsia utriculata

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Tillandsia utriculata. See image source here.

#315 They called me Tillandsia utriculata, also known as Tillandsia bartramii, Allardtia potockii, and Tillandsia sintenisii. I pay homage to the male botanists Potock (I couldn’t find his records), Sintenis (I couldn’t find his records), and John Bartram, Edwin Bunting Bartram, or William Bartram. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Bahamas, Belize, Cayman Is., Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Florida, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, and Windward Is..