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Aglaia silvestris

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Aglaia silvestris. See image source here.

#188 They called me Aglaia silvestris, also known as Dysoxylum baillonii, Lepidaglaia baillonii, Aglaia forstenii, Lepiaglaia baillonii, Aglaia baillonii, Aglaia mannii, and Epicharis baillonii. I pay homage to the male botanists Forsten (I couldn’t find his records), Gustav Mann, and Henri Ernest Baillon, or Louis Antoine François Baillon. They first catalogued me in 1917.

Native to Andaman Is., Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Sterculia macrophylla

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Sterculia macrophylla. See image source here.

#170 They called me Sterculia macrophylla, also known as Sterculia parkinsonii. I pay homage to the male botanist Charles Edward Parkinson. They first catalogued me in 1805.

Native to Andaman Is., Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Jawa, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Sumatera, and Thailand.

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Bruguiera gymnorhiza

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Bruguiera gymnorhiza. See image source here.

#160 They called me Bruguiera gymnorhiza, also known as Bruguiera zippelii, Bruguiera wightii, and Bruguiera rumphii. I pay homage to the male botanists Zippel (I couldn’t find his records), Rumph (I couldn’t find his records), and Robert Wight, or William Franklin Wight. They first catalogued me in 1798.

Native to Aldabra, Andaman Is., Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, Cape Provinces, Caroline Is., China Southeast, Christmas I., Djibouti, Fiji, Gilbert Is., Hainan, India, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesser Sunda Is., Madagascar, Malaya, Maluku, Marshall Is., Mauritius, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel I, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nauru, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Northern Territory, Pakistan, Philippines, Queensland, Samoa, Seychelles, Solomon Is., Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Tanzania, Thailand, Tonga, Vanuatu, Vietnam, and Wallis-Futuna Is..