Month: December 2022

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Meliosma herbertii

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Meliosma herbertii. See image source here.

#439 They called me Meliosma herbertii. I pay homage to the male botanist William Herbert. They first catalogued me in 1893.

Native to Bolivia, Brazil North, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Leeward Is., Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Plantago coronopus

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Plantago coronopus. See image source here.

#438 They called me Plantago coronopus, also known as Plantago aschersonii, Plantago jacquinii, and Plantago parishii. I pay homage to the male botanists Paul Friedrich August Ascherson, Charles Samuel Pollock Parish, and Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, or Joseph Franz von Jacquin. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Azores, Baleares, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Corse, Denmark, East Aegean Is., Egypt, Eritrea, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Kriti, Krym, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, Netherlands, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Selvagens, Sicilia, Spain, Sweden, Tadzhikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Western Sahara, and Yugoslavia.

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Jasminum elongatum

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Jasminum elongatum. See image source here.

#437 They called me Jasminum elongatum, also known as Jasminum horsfieldii, Jasminum evansii, Jasminum aemulum var. brassii, Jasminum esquirolii, and Jasminum forstenii. I pay homage to the male botanists Thomas Horsfield, Brass (I couldn’t find his records), Esquirol (I couldn’t find his records), Forsten (I couldn’t find his records), and Alexander William Evans, Arthur Humble Evans, or William Edgar Evans. They first catalogued me in 1797.

Native to Andaman Is., Assam, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Northern Territory, Philippines, Queensland, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, and Western Australia.