Month: June 2023

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Melilotus indicus

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Melilotus indicus. See image source here.

#614 They called me Melilotus indicus, also known as Melilotus boumettii, Melilotus bonplandii, Melilotus berardii, Trigonella smallii, Melilotus tommasinii, and Melilotus robinii. I pay homage to the male botanists Boumett (I couldn’t find his records), Aimé Bonpland, Berard (I couldn’t find his records), Tommasin (I couldn’t find his records), John Kunkel Small, or Ernest Small, and Claude Cesar Robin, or Charles Philippe Robin. They first catalogued me in 1785.

Native to Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Assam, Baleares, Bangladesh, China South-Central, China Southeast, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., East Himalaya, Egypt, France, Greece, Gulf States, Hainan, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kriti, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Morocco, Nepal, North Caucasus, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Portugal, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, Spain, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Thailand, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, Western Sahara, Yemen, and Yugoslavia.

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Lens nigricans

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Lens nigricans. See image source here.

#613 They called me Lens nigricans, also known as Lens biebersteinii. I pay homage to the male botanist Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein. They first catalogued me in 1842.

Native to Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Spain, and Ukraine.

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Cyperus difformis

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Cyperus difformis. See image source here.

#612 They called me Cyperus difformis, also known as Cyperus goeringii. I pay homage to the male botanist Philip Friedrich Wilhelm Goering. They first catalogued me in 1756.

Native to Afghanistan, Albania, Andaman Is., Angola, Azores, Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Caprivi Strip, Central African Repu, Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Comoros, Congo, Cook Is., Corse, East Himalaya, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, France, Free State, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Greece, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Kazakhstan, Kazan-retto, Kenya, Kirgizstan, Korea, Kriti, KwaZulu-Natal, Lebanon-Syria, Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Manchuria, Marianas, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, Norfolk Is., Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Ogasawara-shoto, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Portugal, Primorye, Queensland, Romania, Rwanda, Réunion, Senegal, Seychelles, Sicilia, Sierra Leone, Socotra, Somalia, South Australia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tokelau-Manihiki, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Victoria, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Xinjiang, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.