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unusual facts about alpha taxonomy


Alpha taxonomy

Thus the common buttercup is Ranunculus acris L., where the 'L' is the standardised abbreviation for Linnaeus.


Carex firma

Carex firma was first described by Nicolaus Thomas Host in 1797, in his work Synopsis Plantarum in Austria provinciisque adjacentibus sponte crescentium.

Penaeus esculentus

In 1879, he described Penaeus esculentus in a paper in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, basing his description on material in the Macleay Museum which had come from Port Jackson and Port Darwin, and noting that P. esculentus is "the common edible prawn of Sydney, and Newcastle, etc.".


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