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Gladiolus ecklonii

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Gladiolus ecklonii. See image source here.

#43 They called me Gladiolus ecklonii. I pay homage to the male botanist Christian Friedrich Ecklon. They first catalogued me in 1836.

Native to Cape Provinces, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Northern Provinces, and Swaziland.

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Moraea pallida

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Moraea pallida. See image source here.

#40 They called me Moraea pallida, also known as Homeria mossii. I pay homage to the male botanist Charles Edward Moss. They first catalogued me in 1998.

Native to Botswana, Cape Provinces, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Namibia, and Northern Provinces.

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Gladiolus crassifolius

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Gladiolus crassifolius. See image source here.

#32 They called me Gladiolus crassifolius, also known as Gladiolus junodii, Gladiolus thomsonii, Gladiolus conrathii, and Gladiolus dieterlenii. I pay homage to the male botanists Junod (I couldn’t find his records), Conrath (I couldn’t find his records), Dieterlen (I couldn’t find his records), and George Thomson, or Charles Wyville Thomson. They first catalogued me in 1876.

Native to Angola, Cape Provinces, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Swaziland, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe.