Month: October 2023

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Aerides odorata

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Aerides odorata. See image source here.

#749 They called me Aerides odorata, also known as Aerides reichenbachii, and Aerides micholitzii. I pay homage to the male botanists Micholitz (I couldn’t find his records), and Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, Ludwig Reichenbach, or Carl (Karl) Ludwig von Reichenbach. They first catalogued me in 1790.

Native to Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, and West Himalaya.

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Leptochloa asthenes

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Leptochloa asthenes. See image source here.

#748 They called me Leptochloa asthenes, also known as Poa sprengelii. I pay homage to the male botanist Kurt Sprengel, Christian Konrad (Conrad) Sprengel, or Anton Sprengel. They first catalogued me in 1941.

Native to New South Wales, and Queensland.

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Syngonium podophyllum

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Syngonium podophyllum. See image source here.

#747 They called me Syngonium podophyllum, also known as Syngonium poeppigii, Syngonium ruizii, Syngonium willdenowii, and Syngonium vellozianum var. poeppigii. I pay homage to the male botanists Eduard Friedrich Poeppig, Ruiz (I couldn’t find his records), and Carl Ludwig Willdenow, or Carl Ludwig von Willdenow. They first catalogued me in 1851.

Native to Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Venezuelan Antilles.