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Fimbristylis ferruginea

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Fimbristylis ferruginea. See image source here.

#322 They called me Fimbristylis ferruginea, also known as Fimbristylis roxburghii. I pay homage to the male botanist William Roxburgh. They first catalogued me in 1805.

Native to Afghanistan, Aldabra, Algeria, Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Botswana, Burkina, Cape Provinces, Cayman Is., Chad, Congo, Cuba, Cyprus, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Aegean Is., Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Gulf States, Guyana, Haiti, India, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jawa, Kenya, Kriti, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Lebanon-Syria, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malaya, Maluku, Marquesas, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico Southeast, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Oman, Palestine, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rodrigues, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sinai, Society Is., Socotra, Somalia, South Australia, South China Sea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Transcaucasus, Trinidad-Tobago, Turkey, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam, Western Australia, Windward Is., Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.

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Poa trivialis

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#316 They called me Poa trivialis, also known as Poa schultesii, Poa kitaibelii, Poa perouinii, Poa portalii, Poa woronowii, Poa villarsii, and Poa janczewskii. I pay homage to the male botanists Schultes (I couldn’t find his records), Pál Kitaibel, Perouin (I couldn’t find his records), Portal (I couldn’t find his records), Woronow (I couldn’t find his records), Villars (I couldn’t find his records), and Janczewsk (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Canary Is., Central European Rus, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Finland, France, Føroyar, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuril Is., Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Magadan, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, North Caucasus, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Romania, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Sicilia, South European Russi, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Xinjiang, and Yugoslavia.

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Arisarum vulgare

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Arisarum vulgare. See image source here.

#311 They called me Arisarum vulgare, also known as Arisarum forbesii, Arisarum veslingii, Arisarum jacquinii, and Arisarum sibthorpii. I pay homage to the male botanists Vesling (I couldn’t find his records), Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, or Joseph Franz von Jacquin, John Sibthorp, or Humphry Waldo Sibthorp, and Charles Noyes Forbes, Edward Forbes, or Henry Ogg Forbes. They first catalogued me in 1810.

Native to Albania, Algeria, Azores, Baleares, Canary Is., Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, Palestine, Sardegna, Sicilia, Sinai, Spain, Transcaucasus, Turkey, and Yugoslavia.