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Oloptum miliaceum

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Oloptum miliaceum. See image source here.

#392 They called me Oloptum miliaceum, also known as Milium thomasii, Piptatherum miliaceum subsp. thomasii, Urachne thomasii, Oloptum thomasii, Oryzopsis thomasii, and Piptatherum thomasii. I pay homage to the male botanist Graham Stuart Thomas, or Mason Blanchard Thomas. They first catalogued me in 2012.

Native to Albania, Algeria, Azores, Baleares, Canary Is., Corse, East Aegean Is., Egypt, France, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, Palestine, Portugal, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, and Yugoslavia.

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Digitaria sanguinalis

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Digitaria sanguinalis. See image source here.

#380 They called me Digitaria sanguinalis, also known as Digitaria sanguinalis var. stewartii, and Panicum kunthii. I pay homage to the male botanists William Sheldon Stewart, and Carl Sigismund Kunth. They first catalogued me in 1771.

Native to Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andaman Is., Azores, Baleares, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Bulgaria, Burundi, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., East Himalaya, Egypt, France, Greece, Gulf States, Hungary, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Kriti, Krym, Laccadive Is., Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Maldives, Manchuria, Morocco, Nicobar Is., North Caucasus, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, South China Sea, South European Russi, Spain, Sudan, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Xinjiang, and Yugoslavia.

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Mentha suaveolens

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Mentha suaveolens. See image source here.

#370 They called me Mentha suaveolens, also known as Mentha bofillii, Mentha suaveolens var. reverchonii, Mentha ripartii, and Mentha willdenowii. I pay homage to the male botanists Bofill (I couldn’t find his records), Elisée Reverchon, Ripart (I couldn’t find his records), and Carl Ludwig Willdenow, or Carl Ludwig von Willdenow. They first catalogued me in 1792.

Native to Algeria, Azores, Baleares, Belgium, Canary Is., Corse, East Aegean Is., France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Madeira, Morocco, Netherlands, Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, and Turkey-in-Europe.