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Heliotropium dolosum

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Heliotropium dolosum. See image source here.

#448 They called me Heliotropium dolosum, also known as Heliotropium eichwaldii. I pay homage to the male botanist Karl Eduard von Eichwald. They first catalogued me in 1844.

Native to Bulgaria, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Greece, Gulf States, Iran, Italy, Kriti, Krym, Romania, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, and Ukraine.

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Iberis carnosa

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Iberis carnosa. See image source here.

#443 They called me Iberis carnosa, also known as Iberis pruitii, Iberis jordanii, Iberis ciliata subsp. pruitii, and Iberis petitii. I pay homage to the male botanists Pruit (I couldn’t find his records), Gregory J. Jordan, and Petit (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1800.

Native to Albania, East Aegean Is., France, Greece, Italy, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, and Yugoslavia.

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Imperata cylindrica

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Imperata cylindrica. See image source here.

#440 They called me Imperata cylindrica, also known as Imperata koenigii, Imperata arundinacea var. koenigii, Saccharum thunbergii, Saccharum koenigii, and Imperata cylindrica subsp. koenigii. I pay homage to the male botanists Koenig (I couldn’t find his records), and Carl Peter Thunberg. They first catalogued me in 1812.

Native to Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Baleares, Benin, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Central African Repu, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, France, Free State, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Greece, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Iran, Iraq, Italy, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Kriti, Kuwait, KwaZulu-Natal, Lebanon-Syria, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Madeira, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Palestine, Portugal, Rwanda, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sicilia, Sierra Leone, Sinai, Socotra, Spain, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Uganda, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.