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Adenostemma verbesina

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Adenostemma verbesina. See image source here.

#367 They called me Adenostemma verbesina, also known as Adenostemma swartzii. I pay homage to the male botanist Olof Swartz. They first catalogued me in 1891.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Brazil South, Cuba, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Deschampsia chapmanii

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Deschampsia chapmanii. See image source here.

#366 They called me Deschampsia chapmanii. I pay homage to the male botanist Alvan Wentworth Chapman, or Alexander Robert Chapman. They first catalogued me in 1891.

Native to Antipodean Is., Macquarie Is., New Zealand North, and New Zealand South.

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Neyraudia arundinacea

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Neyraudia arundinacea. See image source here.

#365 They called me Neyraudia arundinacea, also known as Donax thouarii, Arundo thouarsii, Arundo boivinii, Avena koenigii, and Neyraudia thouarsii. I pay homage to the male botanists Thouar (I couldn’t find his records), Thouars (I couldn’t find his records), Koenig (I couldn’t find his records), and Joseph Robert Bernard Boivin, or Louis Hyacinthe Boivin. They first catalogued me in 1929.

Native to Andaman Is., Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicobar Is., Pakistan, Sumatera, Tanzania, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya, and Zaïre.