Month: October 2023

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Haplophyllum suaveolens

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Haplophyllum suaveolens. See image source here.

#743 They called me Haplophyllum suaveolens, also known as Ruta biebersteinii. I pay homage to the male botanist Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein. They first catalogued me in 1831.

Native to Bulgaria, Greece, Krym, North Caucasus, Romania, South European Russi, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Ukraine, and Yugoslavia.

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Oxalis pes-caprae

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Oxalis pes-caprae. See image source here.

#742 They called me Oxalis pes-caprae, also known as Oxalis ehrenbergii, and Acetosella ehrenbergii. I pay homage to the male botanist Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Cape Provinces, and Namibia.

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Deguelia scandens

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Deguelia scandens. See image source here.

#741 They called me Deguelia scandens, also known as Derris scandens var. toppinii, and Lonchocarpus killipii. I pay homage to the male botanists Toppin (I couldn’t find his records), and Ellsworth Paine Killip. They first catalogued me in 1775.

Native to Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.