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Patersonia lowii

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Patersonia lowii. See image source here.

#690 They called me Patersonia lowii. I pay homage to the male botanist Hugh Low. They first catalogued me in 1894.

Native to Borneo.

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Astraea lobata

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Astraea lobata. See image source here.

#689 They called me Astraea lobata, also known as Astraea seemannii, Croton courtetii, and Croton lobatus var. seemannii. I pay homage to the male botanists Courtet (I couldn’t find his records), and Berthold Carl Seemann, or Wilhelm Eduard Gottfried Seemann. They first catalogued me in 1841.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Honduras, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..

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Benstonea stenocarpa

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Benstonea stenocarpa. See image source here.

#688 They called me Benstonea stenocarpa, also known as Benstonea jacobsii, and Pandanus jacobsii. I pay homage to the male botanist Homer L. Jacobs, or Marius Jacobs. They first catalogued me in 2012.

Native to Bismarck Archipelago, New Guinea, and Solomon Is..