Month: March 2024

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Leptinella scariosa

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Leptinella scariosa. See image source here.

#897 They called me Leptinella scariosa, also known as Cotula hombronii. I pay homage to the male botanist Jacques Bernard Hombron. They first catalogued me in 1822.

Native to Argentina South, Chile Central, Chile South, and Falkland Is..

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Cyperus sphacelatus

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Cyperus sphacelatus. See image source here.

#896 They called me Cyperus sphacelatus, also known as Cyperus balbisii, and Cyperus duchaisingii. I pay homage to the male botanists Giovanni Battista Balbis, and Duchaising (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1773.

Native to Angola, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Central American Pac, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, French Guiana, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Suriname, Tanzania, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Venezuela, Windward Is., Zambia, and Zaïre.

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Tulipa clusiana

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Tulipa clusiana. See image source here.

#895 They called me Tulipa clusiana, also known as Tulipa grey-wilsonii, Tulipa hafisii, Tulipa fernandezii, Tulipa aitchisonii, Tulipa leichtlinii, and Tulipa clusiana f. fernandezii. I pay homage to the male botanists Grey-wilson (I couldn’t find his records), Hafis (I couldn’t find his records), Fernandez (I couldn’t find his records), James Edward Tierney Aitchison, and Leichtlin (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1803.

Native to Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and West Himalaya.