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Noaea mucronata

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Noaea mucronata. See image source here.

#224 They called me Noaea mucronata, also known as Noaea tournefortii, Salsola tournefortii, and Anabasis tournefortii. I pay homage to the male botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort. They first catalogued me in 1887.

Native to Afghanistan, Algeria, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Egypt, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Kriti, Libya, Morocco, North Caucasus, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

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Pterocephalus plumosus

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#207 They called me Pterocephalus plumosus, also known as Pterocephalus vaillantii, Cephalaria wallichii, Scabiosa willichii, and Trichera willichii. I pay homage to the male botanists Sébastien Vaillant, Willich (I couldn’t find his records), and George Charles Wallich, or Nathaniel Wallich. They first catalogued me in 1823.

Native to Albania, Bulgaria, East Aegean Is., Egypt, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Palestine, Sinai, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, and Yugoslavia.

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Malva multiflora

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Malva multiflora. See image source here.

#156 They called me Malva multiflora, also known as Lavatera cavanillesii. I pay homage to the male botanist Antonio José Cavanilles. They first catalogued me in 2005.

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