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Juniperus chinensis

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Juniperus chinensis. See image source here.

#397 They called me Juniperus chinensis, also known as Juniperus thunbergii, Juniperus shepherdii, Juniperus sheppardii, Juniperus gaussenii, Juniperus chinensis var. gaussenii, and Juniperus jacobii. I pay homage to the male botanists Carl Peter Thunberg, George John Shepherd, Sheppard (I couldn’t find his records), Henri Marcel Gaussen, and Jacob (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1767.

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Juncus articulatus

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Juncus articulatus. See image source here.

#395 They called me Juncus articulatus, also known as Juncus tatewakii, Juncus engelmannii, and Juncus articulatus f. zapalowiczii. I pay homage to the male botanists Tatewak (I couldn’t find his records), Zapalowicz (I couldn’t find his records), and George Engelmann, or Georg Engelmann. They first catalogued me in 1753.

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Digitaria sanguinalis

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Digitaria sanguinalis. See image source here.

#380 They called me Digitaria sanguinalis, also known as Digitaria sanguinalis var. stewartii, and Panicum kunthii. I pay homage to the male botanists William Sheldon Stewart, and Carl Sigismund Kunth. They first catalogued me in 1771.