Tag: Andaman Is.

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Scaevola plumieri

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Scaevola plumieri. See image source here.

#381 They called me Scaevola plumieri, also known as Scaevola thunbergii. I pay homage to the male botanist Carl Peter Thunberg. They first catalogued me in 1791.

Native to Andaman Is., Angola, Bahamas, Benin, Bermuda, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Cambodia, Cape Provinces, Cayman Is., Chagos Archipelago, Congo, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Florida, Gabon, Galápagos, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Haiti, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kazan-retto, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Leeward Is., Liberia, Louisiana, Madagascar, Malaya, Mauritius, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel I, Netherlands Antilles, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Ogasawara-shoto, Pakistan, Puerto Rico, Réunion, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Is., Somalia, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Texas, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Vietnam.

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Digitaria sanguinalis

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Digitaria sanguinalis. See image source here.

#380 They called me Digitaria sanguinalis, also known as Digitaria sanguinalis var. stewartii, and Panicum kunthii. I pay homage to the male botanists William Sheldon Stewart, and Carl Sigismund Kunth. They first catalogued me in 1771.

Native to Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andaman Is., Azores, Baleares, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Bulgaria, Burundi, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., East Himalaya, Egypt, France, Greece, Gulf States, Hungary, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Kriti, Krym, Laccadive Is., Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Maldives, Manchuria, Morocco, Nicobar Is., North Caucasus, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, South China Sea, South European Russi, Spain, Sudan, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Xinjiang, and Yugoslavia.

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Aristolochia acuminata

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Aristolochia acuminata. See image source here.

#378 They called me Aristolochia acuminata, also known as Aristolochia eschscholtzii. I pay homage to the male botanist Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz. They first catalogued me in 1783.

Native to Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Queensland, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and Western Australia.