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The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 13:18, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Simethis

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• ... that despite being known as the Kerry lily, Ireland is at the northernmost edge of the range of Simethis mattiazzii?
  • ALT1:... that despite being known as the Kerry lily, Ireland is at the northernmost edge of the range of the plant?

• Reviewed: Kateryna Skarzhynska

5x expanded by Cwmhiraeth (talk). Self-nominated at 09:12, 8 March 2020 (UTC).

• Interesting flower, on good sources, offline sources accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. I like the image! Striking the first hook, assuming that other readers will also forget the Latin name as soon as they read it, - and "plant" is clearer. Please copy the ref to the sentence about "northernmost". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:10, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

• Hi, I came by to promote this, but the hook is hard to understand because the word after the comma should refer back to the subject, not to something else. I suggest writing something like this:
• ALT2: ... that despite being known as the Kerry lily, this perennial plant occurs in only a 20 km² (7.7 sq mi) area of southwestern Ireland? Yoninah (talk) 19:20, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

• I am happy with ALT2, perhaps @Gerda Arendt: would be kind enough to review it. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 19:47, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

I am kind but not yet happy ;) - please reword in a way that we don't loose that the plant grows many other areas south of Ireland, - ALT2 would make me believe it's only there. I also wouldn't need the precise size, - "small" would do. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:13, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

• According to the article: The only place in Britain where it is found is in County Kerry in southwestern Ireland, where it is restricted to a 20 km2 (7.7 sq mi) area around Derrynane. So it's not anywhere else in Ireland except County Kerry. Here is an alt:
• ALT2a: ... that despite being known as the Kerry lily, this perennial plant has a far wider distribution outside Ireland? Yoninah (talk) 21:59, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

- well, we still don't see that the "outside" is all further south, but good enough for me. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:38, 16 March 2020 (UTC)