Month: September 2022

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Neyraudia arundinacea

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Neyraudia arundinacea. See image source here.

#365 They called me Neyraudia arundinacea, also known as Donax thouarii, Arundo thouarsii, Arundo boivinii, Avena koenigii, and Neyraudia thouarsii. I pay homage to the male botanists Thouar (I couldn’t find his records), Thouars (I couldn’t find his records), Koenig (I couldn’t find his records), and Joseph Robert Bernard Boivin, or Louis Hyacinthe Boivin. They first catalogued me in 1929.

Native to Andaman Is., Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicobar Is., Pakistan, Sumatera, Tanzania, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya, and Zaïre.

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Iresine diffusa

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Iresine diffusa. See image source here.

#364 They called me Iresine diffusa, also known as Iresine endlichii, Iresine mutisii, and Alternanthera forsstroemii. I pay homage to the male botanists Endlich (I couldn’t find his records), José Celestino Bruno Mutis, and Forsstroem (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1806.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Texas, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Coccoloba krugii

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Coccoloba krugii. See image source here.

#363 They called me Coccoloba krugii, also known as Coccoloba borgesenii, and Uvifera krugii. I pay homage to the male botanists Karl (Carl) Wilhelm Leopold Krug, and Borgesen (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1890.

Native to Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Puerto Rico, and Turks-Caicos Is..