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Melilotus indicus

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Melilotus indicus. See image source here.

#614 They called me Melilotus indicus, also known as Melilotus boumettii, Melilotus bonplandii, Melilotus berardii, Trigonella smallii, Melilotus tommasinii, and Melilotus robinii. I pay homage to the male botanists Boumett (I couldn’t find his records), Aimé Bonpland, Berard (I couldn’t find his records), Tommasin (I couldn’t find his records), John Kunkel Small, or Ernest Small, and Claude Cesar Robin, or Charles Philippe Robin. They first catalogued me in 1785.

Native to Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Assam, Baleares, Bangladesh, China South-Central, China Southeast, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., East Himalaya, Egypt, France, Greece, Gulf States, Hainan, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kriti, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Morocco, Nepal, North Caucasus, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Portugal, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, Spain, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Thailand, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, Western Sahara, Yemen, and Yugoslavia.

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Muscari neglectum

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Muscari neglectum. See image source here.

#578 They called me Muscari neglectum, also known as Etheiranthus jacquinii, Muscari elwesii, Botryanthus saulii, Muscari letourneuxii, Botryanthus strangwaysii, Muscari strangwaysii, Muscari vinyalsii, Muscari vandasii, Muscari conillii, and Muscari grossheimii. I pay homage to the male botanists Henry John Elwes, Saul (I couldn’t find his records), Letourneux (I couldn’t find his records), Strangways (I couldn’t find his records), Vinyals (I couldn’t find his records), Vandas (I couldn’t find his records), Conill (I couldn’t find his records), Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim, and Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, or Joseph Franz von Jacquin. They first catalogued me in 1841.

Native to Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Austria, Baleares, Belarus, Bulgaria, Central European Rus, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, East Aegean Is., Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kirgizstan, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Morocco, North Caucasus, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, Sinai, South European Russi, Spain, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and Yugoslavia.

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Medicago littoralis

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Medicago littoralis. See image source here.

#576 They called me Medicago littoralis, also known as Medicago braunii. I pay homage to the male botanist Alexander Braun, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Braun, or Alexander Karl Heinrich Braun. They first catalogued me in 1810.

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