Month: February 2024

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Quercus robur

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Quercus robur. See image source here.

#882 They called me Quercus robur, also known as Quercus dalechampii f. piersii, Quercus fennessii, Quercus sieboldii, Quercus annenkowii, Quercus welandii, and Quercus tauzinii. I pay homage to the male botanists Dalechamp (I couldn’t find his records), Piers (I couldn’t find his records), Fenness (I couldn’t find his records), Annenkow (I couldn’t find his records), Weland (I couldn’t find his records), Tauzin (I couldn’t find his records), and Philipp Franz von Siebold, or Karl (Carl) Theodor Ernst von Siebold. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Albania, Altay, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Rus, Corse, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Kriti, Krym, Netherlands, North Caucasus, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, South European Russi, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Ukraine, and Yugoslavia.

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Trichilia pallida

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Trichilia pallida. See image source here.

#881 They called me Trichilia pallida, also known as Trichilia riedelii, Trichilia weddelii, Trichilia skutchii, and Trichilia davisii. I pay homage to the male botanists Riedel (I couldn’t find his records), Weddel (I couldn’t find his records), Skutch (I couldn’t find his records), and Walter Davis, Bradley Moore Davis, M. R. Davis, or William Thompson Davis. They first catalogued me in 1788.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Leeward Is., Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Ellipanthus tomentosus

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Ellipanthus tomentosus. See image source here.

#880 They called me Ellipanthus tomentosus, also known as Ellipanthus curtisii, Ellipanthus vidalii, and Ellipanthus griffithii. I pay homage to the male botanists Gustave Prosper Vidal, William Griffith, and Charles Curtis, Carlton Clarence Curtis, Charles Henry Curtis, William Curtis, or Moses Ashley Curtis. They first catalogued me in 1872.

Native to Andaman Is., Borneo, Cambodia, India, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, and Vietnam.