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Kibara coriacea

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Kibara coriacea. See image source here.

#621 They called me Kibara coriacea, also known as Sciadicarpus brongniartii, Kibara vidalii, and Kibara warburgii. I pay homage to the male botanists Gustave Prosper Vidal, Adolphe Theodore Brongniart, Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, or Alexandre Brongniart, and E. F. Warburg, Edmund Frederic Warburg, or Otto Warburg. They first catalogued me in 1855.

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

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Hydrangea macrophylla

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Hydrangea macrophylla. See image source here.

#620 They called me Hydrangea macrophylla, also known as Hydrangea sieboldii. I pay homage to the male botanist Philipp Franz von Siebold, or Karl (Carl) Theodor Ernst von Siebold. They first catalogued me in 1830.

Native to Japan, and Kazan-retto.

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Clerodendrum laevifolium

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Clerodendrum laevifolium. See image source here.

#619 They called me Clerodendrum laevifolium, also known as Clerodendrum wallichii. I pay homage to the male botanist George Charles Wallich, or Nathaniel Wallich. They first catalogued me in 1826.

Native to Assam, Bangladesh, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, Tibet, and Vietnam.