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Digitaria horizontalis

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Digitaria horizontalis. See image source here.

#655 They called me Digitaria horizontalis, also known as Panicum hamiltonii. I pay homage to the male botanist William Hamilton, Arthur Andrew Hamilton, Alexander Greenlaw Hamilton, or Arthur Hamilton. They first catalogued me in 1809.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bahamas, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cayman Is., Central African Repu, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Galápagos, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Suriname, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is., and Zaïre.

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Selenicereus pteranthus

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Selenicereus pteranthus. See image source here.

#627 They called me Selenicereus pteranthus, also known as Cereus vaupelii, Selenicereus boeckmannii, Cereus boeckmannii, Cereus rothii, Selenicereus vaupelii, and Selenicereus rothii. I pay homage to the male botanists Vaupel (I couldn’t find his records), Boeckmann (I couldn’t find his records), and Georg Roth. They first catalogued me in 1909.

Native to Bahamas, Belize, Cayman Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, and Mexico Southeast.

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Cissus trifoliata

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Cissus trifoliata. See image source here.

#626 They called me Cissus trifoliata, also known as Cissus incisa var. andrewsii. I pay homage to the male botanist Cecil Rollo Payton Andrews, Charles William Andrews, Ebenezer Baldwin Andrews, George W. Andrews, Henry Nathaniel Andrews, Albert LeRoy Andrews, or Henry Cranke Andrews. They first catalogued me in 1759.

Native to Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Aruba, Bahamas, Cayman Is., Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Florida, Georgia, Guatemala, Haiti, Jamaica, Kansas, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Missouri, Netherlands Antilles, New Mexico, Nicaragua, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, Texas, Turks-Caicos Is., and Venezuela.