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Asperula tournefortii

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Asperula tournefortii. See image source here.

#780 They called me Asperula tournefortii, also known as Crucianella tournefortii. I pay homage to the male botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort. They first catalogued me in 1824.

Native to East Aegean Is., Greece, and Kriti.

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Brachypodium retusum

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Brachypodium retusum. See image source here.

#765 They called me Brachypodium retusum, also known as Brachypodium allionii, Brachypodium willkommii, Brachypodium hostii, Brachypodium plukenetii, and Bromus plukenetii. I pay homage to the male botanists Allion (I couldn’t find his records), Heinrich Moritz Willkomm, Nicolaus Thomas Host, and Leonard Plukenet. They first catalogued me in 1812.

Native to Albania, Algeria, Baleares, Corse, East Aegean Is., Ethiopia, France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Morocco, North Caucasus, Portugal, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Spain, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Yemen, and Yugoslavia.

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Orobanche alba

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Orobanche alba. See image source here.

#733 They called me Orobanche alba, also known as Orobanche wiedemannii. I pay homage to the male botanist Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann. They first catalogued me in 1800.

Native to Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Rus, China South-Central, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, East Aegean Is., France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Kriti, Krym, Morocco, Nepal, North Caucasus, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Sicilia, South European Russi, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, West Himalaya, and Yugoslavia.