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Bulbinella rossii

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Bulbinella rossii. See image source here.

#418 They called me Bulbinella rossii, also known as Anthericum rossii, Chrysobactron rossii, and Veratrum dubouzetii. I pay homage to the male botanists Alexander Milton Ross, and Dubouzet (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1893.

Native to Antipodean Is..

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Ryparosa javanica

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Ryparosa javanica. See image source here.

#417 They called me Ryparosa javanica, also known as Ryparosa kurzii. I pay homage to the male botanist Hermann Kurz, Holger Willibald Kurz, Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz, or Albert Kurz. They first catalogued me in 1900.

Native to Andaman Is., Borneo, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Queensland, Sumatera, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Rourea minor

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Rourea minor. See image source here.

#416 They called me Rourea minor, also known as Connarus roxburghii, Santaloides afzelii, Rourea millettii, Santalodes roxburghii, Santaloides beccarii, and Rourea afzelii. I pay homage to the male botanists William Roxburgh, Afzel (I couldn’t find his records), Millett (I couldn’t find his records), and Beccar (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1931.

Native to Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Borneo, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Repu, China South-Central, China Southeast, Congo, East Himalaya, Fiji, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kenya, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malaya, Mali, Maluku, Myanmar, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Niue, Philippines, Samoa, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Uganda, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Is., Zambia, and Zaïre.