Month: December 2021

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Babiana hirsuta

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Babiana hirsuta. See image source here.

#68 They called me Babiana hirsuta, also known as Babiana thunbergii. I pay homage to the male botanist Carl Peter Thunberg. They first catalogued me in 2008.

Native to Cape Provinces.

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Tetragonia implexicoma

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Tetragonia implexicoma. See image source here.

#67 They called me Tetragonia implexicoma, also known as Trianthema maidenii. I pay homage to the male botanist Joseph Maiden. They first catalogued me in 1856.

Native to Chatham Is., Kermadec Is., New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Norfolk Is., Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, and Western Australia.

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Premna serratifolia

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Premna serratifolia. See image source here.

#66 They called me Premna serratifolia, also known as Premna perrottetii, Premna obtusifolia var. gaudichaudii, Premna lamii, Premna gaudichaudii, and Premna woodii. I pay homage to the male botanists Perrottet (I couldn’t find his records), Gaudichaud (I couldn’t find his records), Herman Johannes Lam, and John Medley Wood, Geoffrey H.S. Wood, Howard Page Wood, Alphonso Wood, or William Wood. They first catalogued me in 1771.

Native to Aldabra, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, Caroline Is., Chagos Archipelago, China Southeast, Christmas I., Cocos (Keeling) Is., Comoros, Cook Is., Fiji, Gilbert Is., Hainan, India, Jawa, Kenya, Laccadive Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Madagascar, Malaya, Maldives, Maluku, Marianas, Marquesas, Marshall Is., Mauritius, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel I, Nansei-shoto, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Niue, Northern Territory, Philippines, Pitcairn Is., Queensland, Rodrigues, Réunion, Samoa, Santa Cruz Is., Seychelles, Society Is., Solomon Is., South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tonga, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Vietnam, and Western Australia.