Category: Plants

#66 They called me Premna serratifolia, also known as Premna perrottetii, Premna obtusifolia var. gaudichaudii, Premna lamii, Premna gaudichaudii, and Premna woodii. I pay homage to the male botanists Perrottet (I couldn’t find his records), Gaudichaud (I couldn’t find his records), Herman Johannes Lam, and John Medley Wood, Geoffrey H.S. Wood, Howard Page Wood, Alphonso Wood, or William Wood. They first catalogued me in 1771.

Native to Aldabra, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, Caroline Is., Chagos Archipelago, China Southeast, Christmas I., Cocos (Keeling) Is., Comoros, Cook Is., Fiji, Gilbert Is., Hainan, India, Jawa, Kenya, Laccadive Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Madagascar, Malaya, Maldives, Maluku, Marianas, Marquesas, Marshall Is., Mauritius, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel I, Nansei-shoto, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Niue, Northern Territory, Philippines, Pitcairn Is., Queensland, Rodrigues, Réunion, Samoa, Santa Cruz Is., Seychelles, Society Is., Solomon Is., South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tonga, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Vietnam, and Western Australia.