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Brachypodium retusum

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Brachypodium retusum. See image source here.

#765 They called me Brachypodium retusum, also known as Brachypodium allionii, Brachypodium willkommii, Brachypodium hostii, Brachypodium plukenetii, and Bromus plukenetii. I pay homage to the male botanists Allion (I couldn’t find his records), Heinrich Moritz Willkomm, Nicolaus Thomas Host, and Leonard Plukenet. They first catalogued me in 1812.

Native to Albania, Algeria, Baleares, Corse, East Aegean Is., Ethiopia, France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Morocco, North Caucasus, Portugal, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Spain, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Yemen, and Yugoslavia.

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Papaver rhoeas

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Papaver rhoeas. See image source here.

#722 They called me Papaver rhoeas, also known as Papaver fuchsii, Papaver pseudohaussknechtii, and Papaver osswaldii. I pay homage to the male botanists Pseudohaussknecht (I couldn’t find his records), Osswald (I couldn’t find his records), and Leonhart Fuchs, or Hans Peter Fuchs. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Central European Rus, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kriti, Krym, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, Netherlands, North Caucasus, Northwest European R, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, South European Russi, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, West Himalaya, and Yugoslavia.

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Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum

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Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum. See image source here.

#683 They called me Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum, also known as Cryophytum rogersii. I pay homage to the male botanist Richard Sanders Rogers. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Algeria, Baleares, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Egypt, France, Greece, Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kriti, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Mauritania, Morocco, Namibia, Oman, Palestine, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Selvagens, Sicilia, Sinai, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, Western Sahara, and Yugoslavia.