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Bromus catharticus

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#862 They called me Bromus catharticus, also known as Ceratochloa willdenowii, Bromus willdenowii, Bromus brongniartii, Bromus matthewsii, Bromus preslii, and Festuca stricta f. braunii. I pay homage to the male botanists Carl Ludwig Willdenow, or Carl Ludwig von Willdenow, Henry Bleneowe Matthews, or Henry John Matthews, Jan Svatopluk Presl, or Carl Borivoj Presl, Adolphe Theodore Brongniart, Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, or Alexandre Brongniart, and Alexander Braun, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Braun, or Alexander Karl Heinrich Braun. They first catalogued me in 1791.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Bolivia, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, Colombia, Ecuador, Juan Fernández Is., Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

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Ichnanthus pallens

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#855 They called me Ichnanthus pallens, also known as Panicum pallens var. swartzii, Ichnanthus hitchcockii, and Panicum schlechtendahlii. I pay homage to the male botanists Olof Swartz, Schlechtendahl (I couldn’t find his records), and Charles Leo Hitchcock, Edward Hitchcock, or Albert Spear Hitchcock. They first catalogued me in 1861.

Native to Andaman Is., Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Assam, Bangladesh, Belize, Bolivia, Borneo, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cameroon, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Jawa, Laos, Leeward Is., Liberia, Malaya, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Guinea, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad-Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam, and Windward Is..

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Plantago australis

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#836 They called me Plantago australis, also known as Plantago macrostachys var. stuckertii, Plantago kurtzii, Plantago stuckertii, and Plantago asplundii. I pay homage to the male botanists Stuckert (I couldn’t find his records), Asplund (I couldn’t find his records), and Karl Marie Max Kurtz, or Fritz (Federico) Kurtz. They first catalogued me in 1792.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Bolivia, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Chile North, Chile South, Juan Fernández Is., Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.