Month: October 2022

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Diospyros pilosanthera

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Diospyros pilosanthera. See image source here.

#390 They called me Diospyros pilosanthera, also known as Diospyros hiernii, Diospyros pilosanthera var. nurii, and Diospyros moonii. I pay homage to the male botanists William Philip Hiern, Nur (I couldn’t find his records), and Alexander Moon. They first catalogued me in 1837.

Native to Andaman Is., Borneo, Cambodia, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Crupina crupinastrum

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Crupina crupinastrum. See image source here.

#389 They called me Crupina crupinastrum, also known as Centaurea visianii subsp. visianii, Centaurea visianii, Crupina zuccarinii, and Crupina morisii. I pay homage to the male botanists Visian (I couldn’t find his records), Zuccarin (I couldn’t find his records), and Giuseppe Giacinto Moris. They first catalogued me in 1847.

Native to Albania, Algeria, Baleares, Bulgaria, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Egypt, France, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Morocco, North Caucasus, Palestine, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Switzerland, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, and Yugoslavia.

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Wedelia calycina

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Wedelia calycina. See image source here.

#388 They called me Wedelia calycina, also known as Wedelia jacquinii, Wedelia jacquinii f. andersonii, and Wedelia jacquinii var. andersonii. I pay homage to the male botanists Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, or Joseph Franz von Jacquin, and Charles Lewis Anderson, Edward Frederick Anderson, Edgar Shannon Anderson, Alexander Anderson, James Anderson, or William Anderson. They first catalogued me in 1807.

Native to Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guyana, Leeward Is., Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..