Month: May 2023

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Angiopteris pruinosa

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Angiopteris pruinosa. See image source here.

#580 They called me Angiopteris pruinosa, also known as Angiopteris forbesii. I pay homage to the male botanist Charles Noyes Forbes, Edward Forbes, or Henry Ogg Forbes. They first catalogued me in 1846.

Native to Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., New Guinea, and Sumatera.

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Psydrax dicoccos

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Psydrax dicoccos. See image source here.

#579 They called me Psydrax dicoccos, also known as Gardenia sonneratii. I pay homage to the male botanist Pierre Sonnerat. They first catalogued me in 1788.

Native to Andaman Is., Bangladesh, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tibet, and Vietnam.

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Muscari neglectum

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Muscari neglectum. See image source here.

#578 They called me Muscari neglectum, also known as Etheiranthus jacquinii, Muscari elwesii, Botryanthus saulii, Muscari letourneuxii, Botryanthus strangwaysii, Muscari strangwaysii, Muscari vinyalsii, Muscari vandasii, Muscari conillii, and Muscari grossheimii. I pay homage to the male botanists Henry John Elwes, Saul (I couldn’t find his records), Letourneux (I couldn’t find his records), Strangways (I couldn’t find his records), Vinyals (I couldn’t find his records), Vandas (I couldn’t find his records), Conill (I couldn’t find his records), Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim, and Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, or Joseph Franz von Jacquin. They first catalogued me in 1841.

Native to Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Austria, Baleares, Belarus, Bulgaria, Central European Rus, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, East Aegean Is., Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kirgizstan, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Morocco, North Caucasus, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, Sinai, South European Russi, Spain, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and Yugoslavia.