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Lincons

Linconia

Linconia was the name of a proposed Central American colony suggested by Republican United States Senator Samuel Pomeroy of Kansas in 1862, after U.S. President Abraham Lincoln asked the Senator and United States Secretary of the Interior Caleb Smith to work on a plan to resettle freed African Americans from the United States.

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first

King Lincon

speciesLinconia cuspidata

Riviersonderend Lincon

speciesLinconia ericoides

Foxy Lincon

speciesLinconia alopecuroidea

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Recorded sightings

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 575992.