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Pandanus tectorius

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#57 They called me Pandanus tectorius, also known as Pandanus douglasii, Pandanus menziesii, Pandanus parhamii, Pandanus bergmanii, Pandanus parksii, Pandanus grantii, Pandanus rockii, Pandanus jonesii, Pandanus sykesii, Pandanus christophersenii, Pandanus hubbardii, Pandanus kraussii, Pandanus brownii, Pandanus koidzumii, Pandanus smithii, Pandanus volkensii, Pandanus edwinii, Pandanus veitchii, Pandanus tectorius var. douglasii, and Pandanus tectorius var. menziesii. I pay homage to the male botanists David Douglas, Archibald Menzies, Parham (I couldn’t find his records), Bergman (I couldn’t find his records), Clifford R. Parks, Grant (I couldn’t find his records), Sykes (I couldn’t find his records), Erling Christophersen, Charles Edward Hubbard, Koidzum (I couldn’t find his records), Volkens (I couldn’t find his records), Gabriel Edwin, Joseph Rock, or Howard Francis Leonard Rock, Christian Ferdinand Friedrich von Krauss, or Johan Carl Krauss, Eustace Wilkinson Jones, George Neville Jones, or Marcus Eugene Jones, Harry Veitch, John Gould Veitch, Peter Veitch, or Harry James Veitch, Robert Brown, Clair Alan Brown, Nicholas Edward Brown, Addison Brown, Andrew Phillip Brown, or William Brown, and James Edward Smith, Johannes Jacobus Smith, Winifred Smith, Christo Albertyn Smith, Charles Piper Smith, Gerard Edwards Smith, Gilbert Morgan Smith, Henry George Smith, Hamilton Lanphere Smith, Albert Charles Smith, Alan Reid Smith, or William Wright Smith. They first catalogued me in 1774.

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