Month: March 2022

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Sterculia shillinglawii

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Sterculia shillinglawii. See image source here.

#158 They called me Sterculia shillinglawii, also known as Sterculia conwentzii. I pay homage to the male botanists Shillinglaw (I couldn’t find his records), and Hugo Conwentz. They first catalogued me in 1887.

Native to Bismarck Archipelago, Maluku, New Guinea, Queensland, Santa Cruz Is., and Solomon Is..

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Terminalia catappa

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Terminalia catappa. See image source here.

#157 They called me Terminalia catappa, also known as Myrobalanus commersonii, Terminalia copelandii, and Badamia commersonii. I pay homage to the male botanists Commerson (I couldn’t find his records), and Edwin Bingham Copeland, or Herbert Faulkner Copeland. They first catalogued me in 1767.

Native to Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, China Southeast, Christmas I., Cocos (Keeling) Is., East Himalaya, Fiji, Hainan, India, Jawa, Kazan-retto, Lesser Sunda Is., Madagascar, Malaya, Maldives, Maluku, Myanmar, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Niue, Ogasawara-shoto, Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Is., South China Sea, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tonga, Vanuatu, Vietnam, and Wallis-Futuna Is..

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Malva multiflora

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Malva multiflora. See image source here.

#156 They called me Malva multiflora, also known as Lavatera cavanillesii. I pay homage to the male botanist Antonio José Cavanilles. They first catalogued me in 2005.

Native to Albania, Algeria, Azores, Baleares, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Egypt, France, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, Palestine, Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Sinai, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, and Yugoslavia.