Day: July 5, 2022

#278 They called me Cordia dichotoma, also known as Cordia brownii, Lithocardium griffithii, Cordia griffithii, Cordia wallichii, and Cordia obliqua var. wallichii. I pay homage to the male botanists William Griffith, George Charles Wallich, or Nathaniel Wallich, and Robert Brown, Clair Alan Brown, Nicholas Edward Brown, Addison Brown, Andrew Phillip Brown, or William Brown. They first catalogued me in 1786.

Native to Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, India, Japan, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Northern Territory, Pakistan, Philippines, Queensland, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vanuatu, Vietnam, West Himalaya, and Western Australia.