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Miliusa horsfieldii

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Miliusa horsfieldii. See image source here.

#260 They called me Miliusa horsfieldii, also known as Saccopetalum horsfieldii. I pay homage to the male botanist Thomas Horsfield. They first catalogued me in 1881.

Native to Andaman Is., China Southeast, Hainan, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Queensland, and Thailand.

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Cyrtococcum patens

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Cyrtococcum patens. See image source here.

#258 They called me Cyrtococcum patens, also known as Cyrtococcum schmidtii, Panicum schmidtii, Panicum warburgii, and Cyrtococcum warburgii. I pay homage to the male botanists E. F. Warburg, Edmund Frederic Warburg, or Otto Warburg, and Carl Friedrich Schmidt, Ernst Johannes Schmidt, Eduard Oscar Schmidt, Wilhelm Ludwig Ewald Schmidt, or Wilhelm Schmidt. They first catalogued me in 1921.

Native to Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Caroline Is., China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Marianas, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Ogasawara-shoto, Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam, and West Himalaya.

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Alyxia reinwardtii

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Alyxia reinwardtii. See image source here.

#254 They called me Alyxia reinwardtii, also known as Alyxia winckelii, Alyxia forbesii, Alyxia kurzii, Gynopogon reinwardtii, and Alyxia kerrii. I pay homage to the male botanists Reinwardt (I couldn’t find his records), Winckel (I couldn’t find his records), Arthur Francis George Kerr, Charles Noyes Forbes, Edward Forbes, or Henry Ogg Forbes, and Hermann Kurz, Holger Willibald Kurz, Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz, or Albert Kurz. They first catalogued me in 1823.

Native to Andaman Is., Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sumatera, Thailand, and Vietnam.