Categories
Plants

Crocus thomasii

This plant's image
Crocus thomasii. See image source here.

#298 They called me Crocus thomasii. I pay homage to the male botanist Graham Stuart Thomas, or Mason Blanchard Thomas. They first catalogued me in 1826.

Native to Italy, and Yugoslavia.

Categories
Plants

Selaginella substipitata

This plant's image
Selaginella substipitata. See image source here.

#297 They called me Selaginella substipitata, also known as Selaginella sherringii, and Selaginella nashii. I pay homage to the male botanists Sherring (I couldn’t find his records), and George Valentine Nash. They first catalogued me in 1843.

Native to Colombia, Haiti, Leeward Is., Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

Categories
Plants

Bikkia tetrandra

This plant's image
Bikkia tetrandra. See image source here.

#296 They called me Bikkia tetrandra, also known as Bikkia comptonii, and Bikkiopsis comptonii. I pay homage to the male botanist Robert Harold Compton. They first catalogued me in 1830.

Native to Caroline Is., Fiji, Marianas, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Niue, Solomon Is., Tonga, Vanuatu, and Wallis-Futuna Is..