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Blumeodendron kurzii

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Blumeodendron kurzii. See image source here.

#877 They called me Blumeodendron kurzii, also known as Mallotus kurzii. I pay homage to the male botanist Hermann Kurz, Holger Willibald Kurz, Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz, or Albert Kurz. They first catalogued me in 1910.

Native to Andaman Is., Borneo, Jawa, Malaya, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sumatera, and Thailand.

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Cyperus dubius

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Cyperus dubius. See image source here.

#871 They called me Cyperus dubius, also known as Cyperus merrillii, Mariscus merrillii, and Mariscus kraussii. I pay homage to the male botanists Elmer Drew Merrill, and Christian Ferdinand Friedrich von Krauss, or Johan Carl Krauss. They first catalogued me in 1773.

Native to Aldabra, Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Borneo, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Repu, Chagos Archipelago, Comoros, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Laos, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maldives, Mauritius, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel I, Namibia, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Philippines, Rodrigues, Rwanda, Réunion, Seychelles, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sumatera, Swaziland, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.

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Aglaia korthalsii

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Aglaia korthalsii. See image source here.

#864 They called me Aglaia korthalsii. I pay homage to the male botanist Pieter Willem Korthals. They first catalogued me in 1868.

Native to Andaman Is., Assam, Borneo, East Himalaya, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, and Vietnam.