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Iris collettii

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#69 They called me Iris collettii, also known as Junopsis collettii, and Iris duclouxii. I pay homage to the male botanists Henry Collett, and Ducloux (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1903.

Native to China South-Central, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Thailand, Tibet, and Vietnam.

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Dodonaea viscosa

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#58 They called me Dodonaea viscosa, also known as Dodonaea ehrenbergii, Dodonaea viscosa f. ehrenbergii, Dodonaea eriocarpa var. forbesii, Dodonaea eriocarpa var. skottsbergii, Dodonaea eriocarpa var. hillebrandii, and Dodonaea eriocarpa var. sherffii. I pay homage to the male botanists Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Skottsberg (I couldn’t find his records), Sherff (I couldn’t find his records), William (Wilhelm) Hillebrand, or William Francis Hillebrand, and Charles Noyes Forbes, Edward Forbes, or Henry Ogg Forbes. They first catalogued me in 1760.

Native to Afghanistan, Aldabra, Andaman Is., Angola, Argentina Northeast, Arizona, Assam, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Burundi, California, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Caroline Is., Cayman Is., Central African Repu, Chatham Is., Chile Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Cocos (Keeling) Is., Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Cook Is., Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, Florida, French Guiana, Galápagos, Gambia, Ghana, Gilbert Is., Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf States, Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, India, Iran, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jawa, Kazan-retto, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maldives, Maluku, Marshall Is., Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nauru, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Is., Northern Territory, Ogasawara-shoto, Oman, Pakistan, Panamá, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rwanda, Samoa, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Society Is., Solomon Is., Southwest Caribbean, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad-Tobago, Tubuai Is., Turks-Caicos Is., Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Is., West Himalaya, Western Australia, Windward Is., Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.

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Plantago lanceolata

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#13 They called me Plantago lanceolata, also known as Plantago preslii, Plantago schottii, and Plantago linkii. I pay homage to the male botanists Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link, Jan Svatopluk Presl, or Carl Borivoj Presl, and Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, Heinrich Schott, Anton Schott, or Arthur Carl Victor Schott. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Central European Rus, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Finland, France, Føroyar, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Kriti, Krym, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Manchuria, Mauritania, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, South European Russi, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yemen, and Yugoslavia.