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	Ornithogalum nutans  L.

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

Synon.:  Honorius nutans  (L.) GRAY

Genus:  Ornithogalum  L.,  Honorius  GRAY

Authors:
	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
	nutans:		nutant
	Honorius:		in honor of a Honorius which can't be identified anymore

Fig. 1:  Ornithogalum nutans / Drooping Star of Bethlehem Lesbos, Agiasos 12.5.1995

Fig. 2:  Ornithogalum nutans / Drooping Star of Bethlehem Lesbos, Agiasos 12.5.1995

Fig. 3:  Ornithogalum nutans / Drooping Star of Bethlehem Lesbos, Agiasos 15.4.2014

Fig. 4:  Ornithogalum nutans / Drooping Star of Bethlehem Lesbos, Agiasos 15.4.2014

Fig. 5:  Ornithogalum nutans / Drooping Star of Bethlehem Samos, Spatharei 17.4.2017

Fig. 6:  Ornithogalum nutans / Drooping Star of Bethlehem Samos, Spatharei 17.4.2017

Fig. 7:  Ornithogalum nutans / Drooping Star of Bethlehem Samos, Spatharei 17.4.2017

Fig. 8:  Ornithogalum nutans / Drooping Star of Bethlehem Samos, Spatharei 17.4.2017

Fig. 9:  Ornithogalum nutans / Drooping Star of Bethlehem Crete, Lasithi 5.4.1990

Fig. 10:  Ornithogalum nutans / Drooping Star of Bethlehem Rhodos, Lahania 25.3.2005

Fig. 11:  Ornithogalum nutans / Drooping Star of Bethlehem Rhodos, Embona 31.3.2019

Fig. 12:  Ornithogalum nutans / Drooping Star of Bethlehem Rhodos, Embona 31.3.2019

Fig. 13:  Ornithogalum nutans / Drooping Star of Bethlehem D Bad Nauheim 20.4.2009

Fig. 14:  Ornithogalum nutans / Drooping Star of Bethlehem D Ingelheim 5.4.2008

Fig. 15:  Ornithogalum nutans / Drooping Star of Bethlehem D Ingelheim 5.4.2008

Fig. 16:  Ornithogalum nutans / Drooping Star of Bethlehem D Ingelheim 5.4.2008

Fig. 17:  Ornithogalum nutans / Drooping Star of Bethlehem D Ingelheim 5.4.2008

Fig. 18:  Ornithogalum nutans / Drooping Star of Bethlehem D Ingelheim 5.4.2008

Fig. 19:  Ornithogalum nutans / Drooping Star of Bethlehem D Würzburg 2.5.2010

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