Tag: Cape Provinces

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Albuca bracteata

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Albuca bracteata. See image source here.

#990 They called me Albuca bracteata, also known as Ornithogalum massonii, and Urginea mouretii. I pay homage to the male botanists Francis Masson, and Mouret (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 2009.

Native to Cape Provinces, and KwaZulu-Natal.

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Opuntia phaeacantha

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Opuntia phaeacantha. See image source here.

#989 They called me Opuntia phaeacantha, also known as Opuntia phaeacantha var. wootonii, Opuntia wootonii, Opuntia engelmannii var. wootonii, and Opuntia woodsii. I pay homage to the male botanists Elmer Otis Wooton, Woods (I couldn’t find his records), and George Engelmann, or Georg Engelmann. They first catalogued me in 1849.

Native to Cape Provinces, and KwaZulu-Natal.

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Oenothera biennis

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Oenothera biennis. See image source here.

#980 They called me Oenothera biennis, also known as Oenothera chicaginensis var. bartlettii, Oenothera tacikii, Oenothera stucchii, Oenothera rostanskii, Oenothera victorinii, Oenothera reynoldsii, and Oenothera pellegrinii. I pay homage to the male botanists Harley Harris Bartlett, Tacik (I couldn’t find his records), Stucch (I couldn’t find his records), Rostansk (I couldn’t find his records), Victorin (I couldn’t find his records), Reynolds (I couldn’t find his records), and Pellegrin (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caprivi Strip, Central African Repu, Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.