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Aira praecox

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Aira praecox. See image source here.

#152 They called me Aira praecox, also known as Aira gmelinii. I pay homage to the male botanist Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Johann Georg Gmelin, Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, or Carl Christian Gmelin. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Azores, Baltic States, Belgium, Canary Is., Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Føroyar, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Krym, Madeira, Netherlands, North Caucasus, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and Turkey.

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Vulpia bromoides

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Vulpia bromoides. See image source here.

#136 They called me Vulpia bromoides, also known as Festuca willemetii. I pay homage to the male botanist (Pierre) Remi Willemet. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Algeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Israel, Albania, Austria, Belgium, and Bulgaria.

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Quercus pubescens

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Quercus pubescens. See image source here.

#118 They called me Quercus pubescens, also known as Quercus vukotinocicii, Quercus borzii, Quercus tommasinii, Quercus secondatii, and Quercus tournefortii. I pay homage to the male botanists Vukotinocic (I couldn’t find his records), Borz (I couldn’t find his records), Tommasin (I couldn’t find his records), Secondat (I couldn’t find his records), and Joseph Pitton de Tournefort. They first catalogued me in 1796.

Native to Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Corse, Czechoslovakia, East Aegean Is., France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kriti, Krym, North Caucasus, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Ukraine, and Yugoslavia.