Month: January 2024

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Biophytum sensitivum

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Biophytum sensitivum. See image source here.

#832 They called me Biophytum sensitivum, also known as Biophytum cumingii. I pay homage to the male botanist Hugh Cuming. They first catalogued me in 1824.

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

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Tephroseris papposa

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Tephroseris papposa. See image source here.

#831 They called me Tephroseris papposa, also known as Tephroseris papposa subsp. heuffelii, Tephroseris papposa subsp. kitaibelii, Tephroseris papposa subsp. wolffii, Tephroseris wolffii, and Senecio heuffelii. I pay homage to the male botanists Heuffel (I couldn’t find his records), Pál Kitaibel, and Manfred Wolff. They first catalogued me in 1866.

Native to Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, Turkey-in-Europe, Ukraine, and Yugoslavia.

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Fimbristylis complanata

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Fimbristylis complanata. See image source here.

#830 They called me Fimbristylis complanata, also known as Isolepis willdenowii, and Fimbristylis bequaertii. I pay homage to the male botanists Joseph Charles Bequaert, and Carl Ludwig Willdenow, or Carl Ludwig von Willdenow. They first catalogued me in 1827.

Native to Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bangladesh, Belize, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cape Provinces, Caroline Is., China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, French Guiana, Gabon, Guatemala, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Kenya, Korea, KwaZulu-Natal, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Malawi, Malaya, Maluku, Marianas, Mauritius, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Pakistan, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rwanda, Réunion, Seychelles, Socotra, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Tonga, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Uruguay, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Is., Windward Is., Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.