Month: July 2023

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Aglaia elliptica

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Aglaia elliptica. See image source here.

#663 They called me Aglaia elliptica, also known as Aglaia moultonii, Aglaia robinsonii, Aglaia stapfii, Aglaia reinwardtii, and Aglaia havilandii. I pay homage to the male botanists Moulton (I couldn’t find his records), Stapf (I couldn’t find his records), Reinwardt (I couldn’t find his records), George Darby Haviland, and Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Charles Budd Robinson, Edward Armitage Robinson, George Leslie Robinson, Harold E. Robinson, or Alastair Robinson. They first catalogued me in 1825.

Native to Borneo, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, and Thailand.

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Dioclea hexandra

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Dioclea hexandra. See image source here.

#662 They called me Dioclea hexandra, also known as Dioclea fergusonii, and Mucuna wertheimii. I pay homage to the male botanists Allan Ross Ferguson, and Wertheim (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1980.

Native to Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi.

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Dischidia nummularia

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Dischidia nummularia. See image source here.

#661 They called me Dischidia nummularia, also known as Dischidia gaudichaudii, and Dischidia copelandii. I pay homage to the male botanists Gaudichaud (I couldn’t find his records), and Edwin Bingham Copeland, or Herbert Faulkner Copeland. They first catalogued me in 1810.

Native to Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Queensland, Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, and Vietnam.