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Trigonella spruneriana

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Trigonella spruneriana. See image source here.

#210 They called me Trigonella spruneriana, also known as Trigonella sibthorpii, Trigonella spruneriana subsp. sibthorpii, Vicia sibthorpii, and Cracca sibthorpii. I pay homage to the male botanist John Sibthorp, or Humphry Waldo Sibthorp. They first catalogued me in 1843.

Native to Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Greece, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, and Turkmenistan.

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Pterocephalus plumosus

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Pterocephalus plumosus. See image source here.

#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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Vitis vinifera

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Vitis vinifera. See image source here.

#206 They called me Vitis vinifera, also known as Vitis guilelmii, and Vitis gmelinii. I pay homage to the male botanists Guilelm (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 Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kirgizstan, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Palestine, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and Yugoslavia.