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Teucrium bicolor

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Teucrium bicolor. See image source here.

#519 They called me Teucrium bicolor, also known as Teucrium cavanillesii. I pay homage to the male botanist Antonio José Cavanilles. They first catalogued me in 1817.

Native to Chile Central.

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Rhabdadenia biflora

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Rhabdadenia biflora. See image source here.

#518 They called me Rhabdadenia biflora, also known as Echites billbergii, Dipladenia billbergii, Echites ehrenbergii, Rhabdadenia ehrenbergii, and Echites bilbergii. I pay homage to the male botanists Gustaf Johan Billberg, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, and Bilberg (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1860.

Native to Bahamas, Belize, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Nicaragua, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Operculina macrocarpa

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Operculina macrocarpa. See image source here.

#517 They called me Operculina macrocarpa, also known as Piptostegia gomesii. I pay homage to the male botanist Bernardino António Gomes, or Bernardino António Gomes. They first catalogued me in 1902.

Native to Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Ghana, Guinea, Leeward Is., Paraguay, Togo, and Windward Is..