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Rauvolfia viridis

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Rauvolfia viridis. See image source here.

#394 They called me Rauvolfia viridis, also known as Rauvolfia lamarckii, and Rauvolfia lamarkii. I pay homage to the male botanists Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, and Lamark (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1819.

Native to Aruba, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Leeward Is., Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..

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Maasia glauca

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Maasia glauca. See image source here.

#393 They called me Maasia glauca, also known as Unona merrittii, Polyalthia merrittii, and Polyalthia parkinsonii. I pay homage to the male botanists Merritt (I couldn’t find his records), and Charles Edward Parkinson. They first catalogued me in 2008.

Native to Andaman Is., Borneo, Jawa, Malaya, Maluku, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, and Thailand.

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Oloptum miliaceum

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Oloptum miliaceum. See image source here.

#392 They called me Oloptum miliaceum, also known as Milium thomasii, Piptatherum miliaceum subsp. thomasii, Urachne thomasii, Oloptum thomasii, Oryzopsis thomasii, and Piptatherum thomasii. I pay homage to the male botanist Graham Stuart Thomas, or Mason Blanchard Thomas. They first catalogued me in 2012.

Native to Albania, Algeria, Azores, Baleares, Canary Is., Corse, East Aegean Is., Egypt, France, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, Palestine, Portugal, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, and Yugoslavia.