Month: December 2022

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Lindsaea repens

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Lindsaea repens. See image source here.

#442 They called me Lindsaea repens, also known as Davallia anderssonii, Humata brooksii, Humata kaudernii, Humata ledermannii, and Humata anderssonii. I pay homage to the male botanists Nils Johan Andersson, Kaudern (I couldn’t find his records), Ledermann (I couldn’t find his records), and Cecil Joslin Brooks, or Maurice Graham Brooks. They first catalogued me in 1864.

Native to Mauritius, and Réunion.

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Micropholis guyanensis

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Micropholis guyanensis. See image source here.

#441 They called me Micropholis guyanensis, also known as Mastichodendron williamsii, Pouteria piresii, Planchonella melinonii, Sideroxylon williamsii, Micropholis cowanii, Chrysophyllum melinonii, and Pouteria melinonii. I pay homage to the male botanists Pires (I couldn’t find his records), Melinon (I couldn’t find his records), John Macqueen Cowan, and Benjamin Samuel Williams, Ion James Muirhead Williams, Mark L. Williams, or Samuel Williams. They first catalogued me in 1891.

Native to Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Leeward Is., Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Imperata cylindrica

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Imperata cylindrica. See image source here.

#440 They called me Imperata cylindrica, also known as Imperata koenigii, Imperata arundinacea var. koenigii, Saccharum thunbergii, Saccharum koenigii, and Imperata cylindrica subsp. koenigii. I pay homage to the male botanists Koenig (I couldn’t find his records), and Carl Peter Thunberg. They first catalogued me in 1812.

Native to Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Baleares, Benin, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Central African Repu, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, France, Free State, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Greece, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Iran, Iraq, Italy, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Kriti, Kuwait, KwaZulu-Natal, Lebanon-Syria, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Madeira, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Palestine, Portugal, Rwanda, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sicilia, Sierra Leone, Sinai, Socotra, Spain, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Uganda, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.