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    Pierre Edmond Boissier (25 May 1810 Geneva – 25 September 1885 Valeyres-sous-Rances) was a Swiss prominent botanist, explorer and mathematician[citation...
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    Euphorbia leuconeura (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
    Euphorbia leuconeura is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae. Its common name is Madagascar jewel. It is endemic to Madagascar where...
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  • (born 1953) Pierre Augustin Boissier de Sauvages (1710–1795), French naturalist and encyclopedist Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810–1885), Swiss botanist,...
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    Euphorbia royleana (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
    Euphorbia royleana is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae. It is also known as Sullu spurge, and Royle's spurge. It is a succulent...
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  • Cynanchica mungieri (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
    Cynanchica mungieri is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. Cynanchica mungieri was first described in 1849 and is endemic to Greece....
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    Euphorbia ingens (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
    Euphorbia ingens is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae. It is native to dry areas of southern Africa. It is popularly known as the...
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    epithet is in honour of Lucile, the wife of the Swiss botanist Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810-1885). It belongs to a group of Scilla species that were formerly...
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    Texas wild olive. It is named after the Swiss explorer and botanist Pierre Edmond Boissier. Cordia boissieri reaches a height of 5–7 m (16–23 ft), with a symmetrical...
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    Echinops adenocaulos (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
    Echinops adenocaulos is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. "Echinops...
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  • Zataria (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
    Zataria is a genus of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1876. It contains only one known species, Zataria multiflora, native...
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    Origanum laevigatum (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
    Origanum laevigatum is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, native to Cyprus, Syria, and Turkey. Growing to 50–60 cm (20–24 in) tall by...
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    Cynanchica rumelica (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
    Cynanchica rumelica is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It was first described in 1856 and is endemic to Bulgaria, Greece, Romania...
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    Lolium persicum (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
    Lolium persicum is a species of flowering plant in the family Poaceae. It is referred to by the common names Persian darnel or Persian ryegrass, and is...
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  • Cynanchica breviflora (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
    Cynanchica breviflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It was described in 1849 and is endemic to Syria. "Cynanchica breviflora...
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  • Astragalus vanillae (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
    Astragalus vanillae is a species of milkvetch in the family Fabaceae. "Astragalus vanillae Boiss". Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal...
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    Origanum rotundifolium (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
    Origanum rotundifolium, the round-leaved oregano, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, native to Turkey, Armenia and Georgia. It is...
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    Cynanchica lilaciflora (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
    Cynanchica lilaciflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. Cynanchica lilaciflora was described in 1843 "Cynanchica lilaciflora (Boiss...
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    Lavandula lanata (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
    Lavandula lanata, the woolly lavender, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, native to southern Spain. An evergreen dwarf shrub growing...
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  • Ferula hermonis (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
    the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d. Retrieved 26 August 2020. Boissier, Pierre Edmond 1873. Flora Orientalis sive enumeratio plantarum in Oriente a Graecia...
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    Agrostis nebulosa (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
    Agrostis nebulosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Poaceae. It is referred to by the common name cloud grass, and is an ornamental plant native...
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    Cynanchica gussonei (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
    rock garden, trough or crevice. Alpine woodruff was first named by Pierre Edmond Boissier "Cynanchica gussonei (Boiss.) P.Caputo & Del Guacchio | Plants of...
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  • Festuca pseudoeskia (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
    Festuca pseudeskia is a species of grass in the family Poaceae. It is endemic to the Sierra Nevada of southern Spain. "Festuca pseudeskia Boiss". Plants...
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  • Allium cassium (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
    d. Retrieved August 26, 2020. Boissier, Pierre Edmond 1882. Flora Orientalis 5: 271-272 in Latin Boissier, Pierre Edmond 1854. Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalium...
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    Salix acmophylla (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
    Salix acmophylla, also known as brook willow, is a willow native to central Asia, the Middle East and Egypt. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Salix...
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  • Carex cilicica (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
    Carex cilicica is a tussock-forming species of perennial sedge in the family Cyperaceae. It is native to parts of the Middle East. List of Carex species...
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  • Medicago rotata (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
    Medicago rotata is a species of flowering plant in the Fabaceae family. It is found throughout the eastern Mediterranean from Turkey to Israel. It forms...
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    Bosea cypria (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
    Bosea cypria is a species of flowering plant in the Amaranthaceae family. It is a highly branched, evergreen shrub, 1–2 m high, erect, suberect, or hanging...
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    Megacaryon (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
    Megacaryon orientale is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae. It is the sole species in genus Megacaryon. It is a biennial native to...
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  • Rhamnus persica (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
    Rhamnus persica is a species of plant in the family Rhamnaceae. "Rhamnus persica Boiss". Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal Botanic...
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  • Astragalus fasciculifolius (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
    Astragalus fasciculifolius is a species of milkvetch in the family Fabaceae. Its resin is sometimes used in place of the true fleshglue, A. sarcocolla...
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