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Ephedra fragilis

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Ephedra fragilis. See image source here.

#537 They called me Ephedra fragilis, also known as Ephedra wettsteinii. I pay homage to the male botanist Richard Wettstein, or Wolfgang Wettstein. They first catalogued me in 1799.

Native to Algeria, Baleares, Canary Is., Italy, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, Portugal, Sicilia, Spain, Tunisia, and Western Sahara.

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Zostera marina

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Zostera marina. See image source here.

#508 They called me Zostera marina, also known as Zostera marina var. phillipsii. I pay homage to the male botanist Barry W. Phillips, or Edwin Percy Phillips. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Alaska, Aleutian Is., Algeria, Baleares, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bermuda, British Columbia, Bulgaria, California, Central American Pac, China North-Central, Connecticut, Corse, Delaware, Denmark, East Aegean Is., Finland, France, Føroyar, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Greenland, Honduras, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Korea, Kriti, Krym, Magadan, Maine, Manchuria, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Northwest, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New York, Newfoundland, North Carolina, North Caucasus, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Norway, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Oregon, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Sicilia, South European Russi, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Ukraine, Virginia, Washington, Yugoslavia, and Yukon.

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Lolium multiflorum

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#484 They called me Lolium multiflorum, also known as Lolium lesdainii, Lolium gaudinii, and Festuca haussknechtii. I pay homage to the male botanists Lesdain (I couldn’t find his records), Charles-Théophile Gaudin, and Heinrich Carl Haussknecht. They first catalogued me in 1779.

Native to Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Azores, Baleares, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Chad, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., East Himalaya, Egypt, France, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Mauritania, Morocco, North Caucasus, Pakistan, Palestine, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, Sinai, Spain, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Western Sahara, Yemen, and Yugoslavia.