Month: September 2022

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Calyptranthes williamsii

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Calyptranthes williamsii. See image source here.

#359 They called me Calyptranthes williamsii, also known as Calyptranthes pallens var. williamsii. I pay homage to the male botanist Benjamin Samuel Williams, Ion James Muirhead Williams, Mark L. Williams, or Samuel Williams. They first catalogued me in 1950.

Native to Bahamas, Belize, Cayman Is., Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Florida, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Puerto Rico, and Turks-Caicos Is..

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Fuchsia magellanica

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Fuchsia magellanica. See image source here.

#358 They called me Fuchsia magellanica, also known as Fuchsia thompsonii, Fuchsia magellanica var. riccartonii, and Fuchsia ricoartonii. I pay homage to the male botanists William Thompson, Riccarton (I couldn’t find his records), and Ricoarton (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1788.

Native to Argentina South, Chile Central, and Chile South.

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Cyperus cyperoides

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Cyperus cyperoides. See image source here.

#357 They called me Cyperus cyperoides, also known as Mariscus humbertii, and Cyperus kraussii. I pay homage to the male botanists Jean-Henri Humbert, and Christian Ferdinand Friedrich von Krauss, or Johan Carl Krauss. They first catalogued me in 1898.

Native to Angola, Ascension, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Repu, Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Comoros, Congo, Cook Is., East Himalaya, Easter Is., Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, India, Japan, Jawa, Kazan-retto, Kenya, Korea, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Maluku, Marianas, Mauritius, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Niue, Northern Provinces, Ogasawara-shoto, Pakistan, Philippines, Queensland, Rwanda, Samoa, Senegal, Society Is., Socotra, Solomon Is., South China Sea, Sri Lanka, St.Helena, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Togo, Tuamotu, Uganda, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Is., West Himalaya, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.