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Aristida adscensionis

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#470 They called me Aristida adscensionis, also known as Aristida thonningii, Chaetaria forskalii, Arthratherum adscensionis subsp. heymannii, Aristida heymannii, and Aristida ehrenbergii. I pay homage to the male botanists Thonning (I couldn’t find his records), Forskal (I couldn’t find his records), Heymann (I couldn’t find his records), and Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Afghanistan, Algeria, Andaman Is., Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Aruba, Ascension, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, California, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Chad, Chile Central, Chile North, China North-Central, China South-Central, Colombia, Colorado, Cuba, Cyprus, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Aegean Is., East Himalaya, Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Galápagos, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Gulf of Guinea Is., Gulf States, Haiti, Honduras, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kansas, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kirgizstan, Kriti, KwaZulu-Natal, Lebanon-Syria, Leeward Is., Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Is., Libya, Madeira, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nebraska, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, Nevada, New Guinea, New Mexico, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, North Caucasus, Northern Provinces, Oklahoma, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Qinghai, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sicilia, Sinai, Socotra, Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Texas, Thailand, Togo, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turks-Caicos Is., Uganda, Utah, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Sahara, Windward Is., Xinjiang, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.

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Plantago coronopus

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#438 They called me Plantago coronopus, also known as Plantago aschersonii, Plantago jacquinii, and Plantago parishii. I pay homage to the male botanists Paul Friedrich August Ascherson, Charles Samuel Pollock Parish, and Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, or Joseph Franz von Jacquin. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Azores, Baleares, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Corse, Denmark, East Aegean Is., Egypt, Eritrea, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Kriti, Krym, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, Netherlands, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Selvagens, Sicilia, Spain, Sweden, Tadzhikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Western Sahara, and Yugoslavia.

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Solanum nigrum

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#351 They called me Solanum nigrum, also known as Solanum tauschii, Solanum nigrum subsp. schultesii, Solanum schultesii, Solanum roxburghii, and Solanum salzmannii. I pay homage to the male botanists Tausch (I couldn’t find his records), Schultes (I couldn’t find his records), William Roxburgh, and Salzmann (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Andaman Is., Assam, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Central European Rus, Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Djibouti, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Gulf States, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuril Is., Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Manchuria, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, Nicobar Is., North Caucasus, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Norway, Ogasawara-shoto, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Romania, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Selvagens, Sicilia, Sinai, South China Sea, South European Russi, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Western Sahara, Yemen, and Yugoslavia.