What happens if a plant is new to science or only known to a couple of botanists. Can I then ‘create’ an English name ? Of course the plant is very well known by local people and has a name in an African language. Here is an observation of the plant which may be endemic to the Serowe village area in Botswana. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?taxon_id=581177
Batswana call it Setoto but I as the only non-Motswana here who is aware of the plant has created an English name, Serowe lashes ! Is my created English name valid even if only one person uses it ? Blepharis petalidioides deserves an English name even if if no other English person has seen the living flowers before. The plant was given a Latin name, based on an old dried desiccated herbarium specimen with no flowers.