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Elaeagnus triflora

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Elaeagnus triflora. See image source here.

#369 They called me Elaeagnus triflora, also known as Elaeagnus cumingii. I pay homage to the male botanist Hugh Cuming. They first catalogued me in 1820.

Native to Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, New Guinea, Philippines, Queensland, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Sumatera, and Taiwan.

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Melicope accedens

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Melicope accedens. See image source here.

#362 They called me Melicope accedens, also known as Euodia parkinsonii. I pay homage to the male botanist Charles Edward Parkinson. They first catalogued me in 1994.

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

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Cyperus cyperoides

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Cyperus cyperoides. See image source here.

#357 They called me Cyperus cyperoides, also known as Mariscus humbertii, and Cyperus kraussii. I pay homage to the male botanists Jean-Henri Humbert, and Christian Ferdinand Friedrich von Krauss, or Johan Carl Krauss. They first catalogued me in 1898.

Native to Angola, Ascension, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Repu, Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Comoros, Congo, Cook Is., East Himalaya, Easter Is., Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, India, Japan, Jawa, Kazan-retto, Kenya, Korea, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Maluku, Marianas, Mauritius, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Niue, Northern Provinces, Ogasawara-shoto, Pakistan, Philippines, Queensland, Rwanda, Samoa, Senegal, Society Is., Socotra, Solomon Is., South China Sea, Sri Lanka, St.Helena, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Togo, Tuamotu, Uganda, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Is., West Himalaya, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.