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Paspalum blodgettii

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Paspalum blodgettii. See image source here.

#263 They called me Paspalum blodgettii, also known as Paspalum simpsonii. I pay homage to the male botanists Blodgett (I couldn’t find his records), and George Simpson. They first catalogued me in 1860.

Native to Bahamas, Belize, Cayman Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic, Florida, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Southeast, Panamá, Puerto Rico, and Turks-Caicos Is..

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Leucothrinax morrisii

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Leucothrinax morrisii. See image source here.

#237 They called me Leucothrinax morrisii, also known as Thrinax morrisii, and Thrinax ekmanii. I pay homage to the male botanists Erik Leonard Ekman, and Edward Lyman Morris, or John Morris. They first catalogued me in 2008.

Native to Bahamas, Cuba, Florida, Haiti, Leeward Is., Puerto Rico, and Turks-Caicos Is..

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Vachellia farnesiana

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Vachellia farnesiana. See image source here.

#232 They called me Vachellia farnesiana, also known as Acacia smallii. I pay homage to the male botanist John Kunkel Small, or Ernest Small. They first catalogued me in 1834.

Native to Alabama, Argentina Northeast, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, New Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Uruguay, Venezuela, and Windward Is..