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Gladiolus crassifolius

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Gladiolus crassifolius. See image source here.

#32 They called me Gladiolus crassifolius, also known as Gladiolus junodii, Gladiolus thomsonii, Gladiolus conrathii, and Gladiolus dieterlenii. I pay homage to the male botanists Junod (I couldn’t find his records), Conrath (I couldn’t find his records), Dieterlen (I couldn’t find his records), and George Thomson, or Charles Wyville Thomson. They first catalogued me in 1876.

Native to Angola, Cape Provinces, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Swaziland, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe.

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Triumfetta rhomboidea

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Triumfetta rhomboidea. See image source here.

#9 They called me Triumfetta rhomboidea, also known as Triumfetta vahlii. I pay homage to the male botanist Martin Vahl. They first catalogued me in 1760.

Native to Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Central African Repu, China South-Central, China Southeast, Congo, East Himalaya, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., India, Ivory Coast, Kazan-retto, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Pakistan, Philippines, Queensland, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Is., South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.