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Fagraea auriculata

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Fagraea auriculata. See image source here.

#636 They called me Fagraea auriculata, also known as Fagraea curranii. I pay homage to the male botanist Hugh McCollum Curran. They first catalogued me in 1822.

Native to Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Ipomoea cairica

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#633 They called me Ipomoea cairica, also known as Ipomoea bouvetii, Batatas cavanillesii, Ipomoea jacquinii, Convolvulus cavanillesii, and Ipomoea cavanillesii. I pay homage to the male botanists Bouvet (I couldn’t find his records), Antonio José Cavanilles, and Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, or Joseph Franz von Jacquin. They first catalogued me in 1826.

Native to Angola, Bangladesh, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, China South-Central, China Southeast, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Ogasawara-shoto, Palestine, Rodrigues, Rwanda, Réunion, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.

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Oplismenus compositus

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#632 They called me Oplismenus compositus, also known as Oplismenus thiebautii, Pollinia jacquinii, Oplismenus liebmannii, Oplismenus junghuhnii, Orthopogon junghuhnii, and Oplismenus owatarii. I pay homage to the male botanists Thiebaut (I couldn’t find his records), Liebmann (I couldn’t find his records), Junghuhn (I couldn’t find his records), Owatar (I couldn’t find his records), and Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, or Joseph Franz von Jacquin. They first catalogued me in 1812.

Native to Alabama, Andaman Is., Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arkansas, Assam, Bangladesh, Belize, Bermuda, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Brazil South, Burundi, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Florida, Georgia, Guatemala, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Kazan-retto, Kenya, Korea, Laccadive Is., Laos, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Louisiana, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maldives, Maluku, Mauritius, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Missouri, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., North Carolina, Northern Territory, Ogasawara-shoto, Oklahoma, Oman, Pakistan, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Réunion, Seychelles, Socotra, South Carolina, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Tanzania, Texas, Thailand, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Uruguay, Vietnam, Virginia, West Himalaya, Windward Is., Yemen, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.