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	Koenigia alpina  (ALL.) T.M.SCHUST. & REVEAL

Fam.: Polygonaceae / Knotweed Fam.

Synon.:  Polygonum alpinum  ALL.,  Aconogonon alpinum  (ALL.) TZVELEV

Genus:  Koenigia  L.,  Polygonum  L.,  Aconogonon  (MEISN.) RCHB.

Authors:
	ALL.:		Carlo Allioni (1728 - 1804), Italian physician and botanist
	T.M.SCHUST.:		Tanja M. Schuster (fl. 2011), Australian botanist
	REVEAL:		James Lauritz Reveal (1941 - 2015), botanist in USA
	TZVELEV:		Nikolai Nikolaievich Tzvelev (1925 - 2015), Russian botanist
	L.:		Carl von Linné (Linnaeus, 1707 - 1777), Swedish naturalist who introduced the binary naming system for plants and animals
	MEISN.:		Carl Daniel Friedrich Meisner (1800 - 1874), Swiss botanist
	RCHB.:		Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (1793 - 1879), German botanist

Etymology:
	Koenigia:		Karl Dietrich Eberhard Koenig (Charles Konig, 1774 - 1851), German-British naturalist
	alpina:		from the Alps
	Polygonum:		polys = many, gone = offspring
	Aconogonon:		aconao = to sharpen, gonia = angle -> with acute corners

Fig. 1:  Koenigia alpina / Alpine Knotweed F Pyrenees, Puigmal 29.7.2018

Fig. 2:  Koenigia alpina / Alpine Knotweed F Pyrenees, Eyne 24.6.2008

Fig. 3:  Koenigia alpina / Alpine Knotweed F Pyrenees, Eyne 24.6.2008

Fig. 4:  Koenigia alpina / Alpine Knotweed F Pyrenees, Eyne 24.6.2008

Fig. 5:  Koenigia alpina / Alpine Knotweed F Pyrenees, Eyne 24.6.2008

Fig. 6:  Koenigia alpina / Alpine Knotweed F Pyrenees, Eyne 24.6.2008

Fig. 7:  Koenigia alpina / Alpine Knotweed F Pyrenees, Eyne 9.8.2006

Fig. 8:  Koenigia alpina / Alpine Knotweed F Pyrenees, Eyne 9.8.2006

Fig. 9:  Koenigia alpina / Alpine Knotweed F Pyrenees, Eyne 9.8.2006

Fig. 10:  Koenigia alpina / Alpine Knotweed F Pyrenees, Eyne 9.8.2006

Fig. 11:  Koenigia alpina / Alpine Knotweed F Pyrenees, Eyne 25.6.2008

Fig. 12:  Koenigia alpina / Alpine Knotweed F Pyrenees, Eyne 4.8.2018

Fig. 13:  Koenigia alpina / Alpine Knotweed F Pyrenees, Eyne 4.8.2018

Fig. 14:  Koenigia alpina / Alpine Knotweed F Pyrenees, Canigou 24.7.2018

Fig. 15:  Koenigia alpina / Alpine Knotweed F Pyrenees, Canigou 24.7.2018

Fig. 16:  Koenigia alpina / Alpine Knotweed F Pyrenees, Canigou 24.7.2018

Fig. 17:  Koenigia alpina / Alpine Knotweed F Pyrenees, Canigou 24.7.2018

Fig. 18:  Koenigia alpina / Alpine Knotweed F Pyrenees, Canigou 24.7.2018

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