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Phoradendron quadrangulare

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Phoradendron quadrangulare. See image source here.

#478 They called me Phoradendron quadrangulare, also known as Phoradendron townsendii, Phoradendron gracile var. ballii, Phoradendron millspaughii, and Phoradendron rensonii. I pay homage to the male botanists Townsend (I couldn’t find his records), Charles Frederick Millspaugh, Renson (I couldn’t find his records), and John Ball, or Carleton Roy Ball. They first catalogued me in 1864.

Native to Argentina Northwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..

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Aristida adscensionis

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#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.

Native to Afghanistan, Algeria, Andaman Is., Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Aruba, Ascension, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, California, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Chad, Chile Central, Chile North, China North-Central, China South-Central, Colombia, Colorado, Cuba, Cyprus, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Aegean Is., East Himalaya, Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Galápagos, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Gulf of Guinea Is., Gulf States, Haiti, Honduras, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kansas, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kirgizstan, Kriti, KwaZulu-Natal, Lebanon-Syria, Leeward Is., Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Is., Libya, Madeira, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nebraska, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, Nevada, New Guinea, New Mexico, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, North Caucasus, Northern Provinces, Oklahoma, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Qinghai, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sicilia, Sinai, Socotra, Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Texas, Thailand, Togo, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turks-Caicos Is., Uganda, Utah, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Sahara, Windward Is., Xinjiang, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.

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Diplazium cristatum

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#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.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..