Month: October 2023

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Derris elliptica

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Derris elliptica. See image source here.

#755 They called me Derris elliptica, also known as Pongamia horsfieldii. I pay homage to the male botanist Thomas Horsfield. They first catalogued me in 1860.

Native to Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, Christmas I., India, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Betula ermanii

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Betula ermanii. See image source here.

#754 They called me Betula ermanii, also known as Betula paraermanii, and Betula komarovii. I pay homage to the male botanists Erman (I couldn’t find his records), Paraerman (I couldn’t find his records), and Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov. They first catalogued me in 1831.

Native to Amur, Buryatiya, China North-Central, Chita, Irkutsk, Japan, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Korea, Kuril Is., Magadan, Manchuria, Primorye, Sakhalin, and Yakutskiya.

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Hakea sericea

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Hakea sericea. See image source here.

#753 They called me Hakea sericea, also known as Hakea acicularis var. smithii. I pay homage to the male botanist James Edward Smith, Johannes Jacobus Smith, Winifred Smith, Christo Albertyn Smith, Charles Piper Smith, Gerard Edwards Smith, Gilbert Morgan Smith, Henry George Smith, Hamilton Lanphere Smith, Albert Charles Smith, Alan Reid Smith, or William Wright Smith. They first catalogued me in 1797.

Native to New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, and Tasmania.