Month: February 2024

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Aglaia korthalsii

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Aglaia korthalsii. See image source here.

#864 They called me Aglaia korthalsii. I pay homage to the male botanist Pieter Willem Korthals. They first catalogued me in 1868.

Native to Andaman Is., Assam, Borneo, East Himalaya, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Oxalis latifolia

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Oxalis latifolia. See image source here.

#863 They called me Oxalis latifolia, also known as Oxalis eggersii, Oxalis buchtienii, and Ionoxalis buchtienii. I pay homage to the male botanists Henrik Franz Alexander von Eggers, and Buchtien (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1822.

Native to Arizona, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, California, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, New Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Bromus catharticus

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Bromus catharticus. See image source here.

#862 They called me Bromus catharticus, also known as Ceratochloa willdenowii, Bromus willdenowii, Bromus brongniartii, Bromus matthewsii, Bromus preslii, and Festuca stricta f. braunii. I pay homage to the male botanists Carl Ludwig Willdenow, or Carl Ludwig von Willdenow, Henry Bleneowe Matthews, or Henry John Matthews, Jan Svatopluk Presl, or Carl Borivoj Presl, Adolphe Theodore Brongniart, Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, or Alexandre Brongniart, and Alexander Braun, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Braun, or Alexander Karl Heinrich Braun. They first catalogued me in 1791.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Bolivia, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, Colombia, Ecuador, Juan Fernández Is., Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela.