Month: July 2023

#645 They called me Atriplex prostrata, also known as Atriplex smithii, Atriplex sackii, Atriplex prostrata var. smithii, and Atriplex hastata subsp. smithii. I pay homage to the male botanists Sack (I couldn’t find his records), and James Edward Smith, Johannes Jacobus Smith, Winifred Smith, Christo Albertyn Smith, Charles Piper Smith, Gerard Edwards Smith, Gilbert Morgan Smith, Henry George Smith, Hamilton Lanphere Smith, Albert Charles Smith, Alan Reid Smith, or William Wright Smith. They first catalogued me in 1805.

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