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Piper amalago

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Piper amalago. See image source here.

#511 They called me Piper amalago, also known as Piper diguetii, Piper wilsonii, Piper lundellii, Piper macintoshii, Piper medium var. leonardii, Piper wulfschlaegelii, Piper henshenii, and Piper deamii. I pay homage to the male botanists Diguet (I couldn’t find his records), Lundell (I couldn’t find his records), Macintosh (I couldn’t find his records), Leonard (I couldn’t find his records), Wulfschlaegel (I couldn’t find his records), Henshen (I couldn’t find his records), Deam (I couldn’t find his records), and Edward Elmer Wilson, Ernest Henry Wilson, Hugh Wilson, or William M. Wilson. They first catalogued me in 1753.

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Aristida adscensionis

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Aristida adscensionis. See image source here.

#470 They called me Aristida adscensionis, also known as Aristida thonningii, Chaetaria forskalii, Arthratherum adscensionis subsp. heymannii, Aristida heymannii, and Aristida ehrenbergii. I pay homage to the male botanists Thonning (I couldn’t find his records), Forskal (I couldn’t find his records), Heymann (I couldn’t find his records), and Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg. They first catalogued me in 1753.

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Diplazium cristatum

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Diplazium cristatum. See image source here.

#461 They called me Diplazium cristatum, also known as Asplenium shepherdii, Diplazium shepherdii, and Diplazium arboreum var. shepherdii. I pay homage to the male botanist George John Shepherd. They first catalogued me in 1936.