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Noaea mucronata

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Noaea mucronata. See image source here.

#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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Hypochaeris glabra

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Hypochaeris glabra. See image source here.

#197 They called me Hypochaeris glabra, also known as Achyrophorus balbisii, and Hypochaeris bartholdii. I pay homage to the male botanists Giovanni Battista Balbis, and Barthold (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Albania, Algeria, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Central European Rus, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Ukraine, and Yugoslavia.