Month: April 2024

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Eragrostis elliottii

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Eragrostis elliottii. See image source here.

#931 They called me Eragrostis elliottii. I pay homage to the male botanist Stephen Elliott. They first catalogued me in 1890.

Native to Alabama, Arkansas, Bahamas, Belize, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Florida, Georgia, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, and Texas.

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Vigna adenantha

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Vigna adenantha. See image source here.

#930 They called me Vigna adenantha, also known as Phaseolus macfadyenii, and Phaseolus cummingii. I pay homage to the male botanists Macfadyen (I couldn’t find his records), and William Archibald Cumming. They first catalogued me in 2011.

Native to Tanzania, Sudan, Congo, Angola, and Madagascar.

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Helictotrichon convolutum

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Helictotrichon convolutum. See image source here.

#929 They called me Helictotrichon convolutum, also known as Helictotrichon convolutum subsp. heldreichii, and Avena heldreichii. I pay homage to the male botanist Theodor Heinrich Hermann von Heldreich. They first catalogued me in 1940.

Native to Albania, Greece, Italy, Lebanon-Syria, Sicilia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, and Yugoslavia.