Month: March 2023

Categories
Plants

Heliotropium biblianum

This plant's image
Heliotropium biblianum. See image source here.

#538 They called me Heliotropium biblianum, also known as Tournefortia wallichii, and Tetrandra wallichii. I pay homage to the male botanist George Charles Wallich, or Nathaniel Wallich. They first catalogued me in 2005.

Native to Borneo, Jawa, Malaya, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, and Sumatera.

Categories
Plants

Ephedra fragilis

This plant's image
Ephedra fragilis. See image source here.

#537 They called me Ephedra fragilis, also known as Ephedra wettsteinii. I pay homage to the male botanist Richard Wettstein, or Wolfgang Wettstein. They first catalogued me in 1799.

Native to Algeria, Baleares, Canary Is., Italy, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, Portugal, Sicilia, Spain, Tunisia, and Western Sahara.

Categories
Plants

Digitaria longiflora

This plant's image
Digitaria longiflora. See image source here.

#536 They called me Digitaria longiflora, also known as Digitaria corradii, Digitaria preslii, Digitaria friesii, Paspalum preslii, and Digitaria roxburghii. I pay homage to the male botanists Corrad (I couldn’t find his records), Elias Magnus Fries, William Roxburgh, and Jan Svatopluk Presl, or Carl Borivoj Presl. They first catalogued me in 1805.

Native to Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Borneo, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Congo, East Himalaya, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Maluku, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Pakistan, Philippines, Queensland, Rwanda, Réunion, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Transcaucasus, Uganda, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.