Month: August 2023

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Benstonea stenocarpa

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Benstonea stenocarpa. See image source here.

#688 They called me Benstonea stenocarpa, also known as Benstonea jacobsii, and Pandanus jacobsii. I pay homage to the male botanist Homer L. Jacobs, or Marius Jacobs. They first catalogued me in 2012.

Native to Bismarck Archipelago, New Guinea, and Solomon Is..

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Pyrrosia sphaerosticha

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Pyrrosia sphaerosticha. See image source here.

#687 They called me Pyrrosia sphaerosticha, also known as Niphobolus warburgii, and Cyclophorus warburgii. I pay homage to the male botanist E. F. Warburg, Edmund Frederic Warburg, or Otto Warburg. They first catalogued me in 1935.

Native to Lesser Sunda Is., Maluku, Philippines, and Sulawesi.

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Lathyrus nissolia

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Lathyrus nissolia. See image source here.

#686 They called me Lathyrus nissolia, also known as Lathyrus gouanii, Anurus nissolia subsp. futakii, Lathyrus gerardii, and Lathyrus nissolia subsp. futakii. I pay homage to the male botanists Gouan (I couldn’t find his records), Futak (I couldn’t find his records), and John Gerard. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Albania, Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Corse, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Morocco, Netherlands, North Caucasus, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, South European Russi, Spain, Switzerland, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey-in-Europe, Ukraine, and Yugoslavia.