Month: August 2023

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Pleurophyllum criniferum

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Pleurophyllum criniferum. See image source here.

#685 They called me Pleurophyllum criniferum, also known as Pleurophyllum hombronii. I pay homage to the male botanist Jacques Bernard Hombron. They first catalogued me in 1844.

Native to Antipodean Is..

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Guettarda krugii

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Guettarda krugii. See image source here.

#684 They called me Guettarda krugii, also known as Guettarda taylorii. I pay homage to the male botanists Karl (Carl) Wilhelm Leopold Krug, and Sir George Taylor, Nigel Paul Taylor, Norman Taylor, or William Randolph Taylor. They first catalogued me in 1899.

Native to Bahamas, Puerto Rico, and Turks-Caicos Is..

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Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum

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Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum. See image source here.

#683 They called me Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum, also known as Cryophytum rogersii. I pay homage to the male botanist Richard Sanders Rogers. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Algeria, Baleares, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Egypt, France, Greece, Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kriti, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Mauritania, Morocco, Namibia, Oman, Palestine, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Selvagens, Sicilia, Sinai, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, Western Sahara, and Yugoslavia.