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Cyperus meyenianus

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#782 They called me Cyperus meyenianus, also known as Cyperus andrewsii. I pay homage to the male botanist Cecil Rollo Payton Andrews, Charles William Andrews, Ebenezer Baldwin Andrews, George W. Andrews, Henry Nathaniel Andrews, Albert LeRoy Andrews, or Henry Cranke Andrews. They first catalogued me in 1837.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Ecuador, Leeward Is., Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Desmodium procumbens

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#781 They called me Desmodium procumbens, also known as Desmodium sprengelii. I pay homage to the male botanist Kurt Sprengel, Christian Konrad (Conrad) Sprengel, or Anton Sprengel. They first catalogued me in 1893.

Native to Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Aruba, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Galápagos, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, New Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..

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Asperula tournefortii

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Asperula tournefortii. See image source here.

#780 They called me Asperula tournefortii, also known as Crucianella tournefortii. I pay homage to the male botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort. They first catalogued me in 1824.

Native to East Aegean Is., Greece, and Kriti.