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Noaea mucronata

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#224 They called me Noaea mucronata, also known as Noaea tournefortii, Salsola tournefortii, and Anabasis tournefortii. I pay homage to the male botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort. They first catalogued me in 1887.

Native to Afghanistan, Algeria, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Egypt, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Kriti, Libya, Morocco, North Caucasus, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

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Pterocephalus plumosus

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#207 They called me Pterocephalus plumosus, also known as Pterocephalus vaillantii, Cephalaria wallichii, Scabiosa willichii, and Trichera willichii. I pay homage to the male botanists Sébastien Vaillant, Willich (I couldn’t find his records), and George Charles Wallich, or Nathaniel Wallich. They first catalogued me in 1823.

Native to Albania, Bulgaria, East Aegean Is., Egypt, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Palestine, Sinai, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, and Yugoslavia.

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Lolium perenne

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#193 They called me Lolium perenne, also known as Lolium marschallii, Lolium trabutii, Lolium gmelinii, and Lolium perenne subsp. trabutii. I pay homage to the male botanists Marschall (I couldn’t find his records), Trabut (I couldn’t find his records), and Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Johann Georg Gmelin, Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, or Carl Christian Gmelin. They first catalogued me in 1753.

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