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Acalypha amentacea

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Acalypha amentacea. See image source here.

 

 

#3 They called me Acalypha amentacea, also known as Acalypha warburgii. I pay homage to the male botanist E. F. Warburg, Edmund Frederic Warburg, or Otto Warburg. They first catalogued me in 1832.

 

 

 

Native to Borneo, Caroline Is., Maluku, New Guinea, Philippines, and Sulawesi.

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Hemiptelea davidii

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Hemiptelea davidii. See image source here.

#2 They called me Hemiptelea davidii, also known as Planera davidii, and Abelicea davidii. I pay homage to the male botanist Armand David. They first catalogued me in 1872.

Native to China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Inner Mongolia, Korea, and Manchuria.

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Ficus erecta

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Ficus erecta. See image source here.

#1 They called me Ficus erecta, also known as Ficus taquetii, and Ficus sieboldii. I pay homage to the male botanists Taquet (I couldn’t find his records), and Philipp Franz von Siebold, or Karl (Carl) Theodor Ernst von Siebold. They first catalogued me in 1786.

Native to Assam, Bangladesh, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Japan, Korea, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, and Vietnam.