Month: January 2023

Categories
Plants

Gironniera subaequalis

This plant's image
Gironniera subaequalis. See image source here.

#464 They called me Gironniera subaequalis, also known as Gironniera korthalsii. I pay homage to the male botanist Pieter Willem Korthals. They first catalogued me in 1848.

Native to Andaman Is., Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Categories
Plants

Ixora timorensis

This plant's image
Ixora timorensis. See image source here.

#463 They called me Ixora timorensis, also known as Ixora kochii. I pay homage to the male botanist Karl Koch, Georg Friedrich Koch, Karl Heinrich Emil Koch, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Koch, or Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch. They first catalogued me in 1834.

Native to Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Maluku, New Guinea, Northern Territory, Queensland, and Sulawesi.

Categories
Plants

Fevillea cordifolia

This plant's image
Fevillea cordifolia. See image source here.

#462 They called me Fevillea cordifolia, also known as Nhandiroba karstenii, and Fevillea karstenii. I pay homage to the male botanist Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Bolivia, Brazil North, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Windward Is..