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References
- 1 2 "Recognizing Linda Katherine Albert de Escobar". www.purdue.edu. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ↑ Panero, Jose L. (April 1996). "Passiflora linda, a New Species from Southern Ecuador". Brittonia. 48 (2): 192–194. doi:10.2307/2807813. JSTOR 2807813. S2CID 39425259.
The species epithet honors the late Linda Escobar, a botanist who loved her profession and the genus Passiflora.
- ↑ International Plant Names Index. L.K.Escobar.
- ↑ "Escobar, Linda Katherine Albert de (1940-1993) on JSTOR". plants.jstor.org. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ↑ IPNI. List of plant names with authority L.K.Escobar.
- ↑ "Tropicos | Person - Escobar, Linda Katherine Albert de". tropicos.org. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
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