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Mesua ferrea

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Mesua ferrea. See image source here.

#387 They called me Mesua ferrea, also known as Mesua roxburghii. I pay homage to the male botanist William Roxburgh. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Ochna integerrima

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Ochna integerrima. See image source here.

#382 They called me Ochna integerrima, also known as Ochna wallichii, Polythecium thorelii, Diporidium wallichii, Polythecanthum thorelii, Ochna harmandii, Discladium wallichii, Polythecium griffithii, and Discladium harmandii. I pay homage to the male botanists Thorel (I couldn’t find his records), Harmand (I couldn’t find his records), William Griffith, and George Charles Wallich, or Nathaniel Wallich. They first catalogued me in 1935.

Native to Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China Southeast, Hainan, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Digitaria sanguinalis

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Digitaria sanguinalis. See image source here.

#380 They called me Digitaria sanguinalis, also known as Digitaria sanguinalis var. stewartii, and Panicum kunthii. I pay homage to the male botanists William Sheldon Stewart, and Carl Sigismund Kunth. They first catalogued me in 1771.

Native to Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andaman Is., Azores, Baleares, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Bulgaria, Burundi, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., East Himalaya, Egypt, France, Greece, Gulf States, Hungary, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Kriti, Krym, Laccadive Is., Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Maldives, Manchuria, Morocco, Nicobar Is., North Caucasus, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, South China Sea, South European Russi, Spain, Sudan, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Xinjiang, and Yugoslavia.