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Diospyros kurzii

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Diospyros kurzii. See image source here.

#543 They called me Diospyros kurzii. I pay homage to the male botanist Hermann Kurz, Holger Willibald Kurz, Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz, or Albert Kurz. They first catalogued me in 1873.

Native to Andaman Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., and Thailand.

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Panicum trachyrhachis

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Panicum trachyrhachis. See image source here.

#542 They called me Panicum trachyrhachis, also known as Ichnanthus harmandii, Panicum kerrii, and Panicum harmandii. I pay homage to the male botanists Harmand (I couldn’t find his records), and Arthur Francis George Kerr. They first catalogued me in 1878.

Native to Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., New Guinea, Northern Territory, Queensland, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Lagenaria siceraria

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Lagenaria siceraria. See image source here.

#541 They called me Lagenaria siceraria, also known as Trochomeria rehmannii. I pay homage to the male botanist Anton Rehmann. They first catalogued me in 1930.

Native to Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zaïre.