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	Ornithogalum boucheanum  ASCH.

APG-Fam.: Asparagacae / Asparagus Fam.       Fam. tradit.: Liliaceae / Lily Fam.

Synon.:  Honorius boucheanus  (KUNTH) HOLUB

Genus:  Ornithogalum  L.,  Honorius  GRAY

Authors:
	ASCH.:		Paul Friedrich August Ascherson (1834 - 1913), German botanist
	KUNTH:		Karl Sigismund Kunth (1788 - 1850), German botanist who described many of the plants which HUMBOLDT brought from Southern America
	HOLUB:		Josef Ludwig Holub (1930 - 1999), Czech botanist
	L.:		Carl von Linné (Linnaeus, 1707 - 1777), Swedish naturalist who introduced the binary naming system for plants and animals
	GRAY:		Samuel Frederick Gray (1766 - 1828), British pharmacologist and botanist

Etymology:
	Ornithogalum:		ornithos = bird, gala = milk
	boucheanum:		Peter Carl Bouché (1783 - 1856), German botanist (BOUCHE)
	Honorius:		in honor of a Honorius which can't be identified anymore

Fig. 1:  Ornithogalum boucheanum / Bouché's Star of Bethlehem D Babenhausen 10.4.2010

Fig. 2:  Ornithogalum boucheanum / Bouché's Star of Bethlehem D Babenhausen 10.4.2010

Fig. 3:  Ornithogalum boucheanum / Bouché's Star of Bethlehem D Babenhausen 10.4.2010

Fig. 4:  Ornithogalum boucheanum / Bouché's Star of Bethlehem D Babenhausen 13.5.2010

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