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Portulaca pilosa

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Portulaca pilosa. See image source here.

#492 They called me Portulaca pilosa, also known as Portulaca karwinskii, and Portulaca ehrenbergii. I pay homage to the male botanists Karwinsk (I couldn’t find his records), and Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kansas, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, Nicaragua, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Southwest Caribbean, Tennessee, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..

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Blepharocalyx eggersii

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Blepharocalyx eggersii. See image source here.

#485 They called me Blepharocalyx eggersii, also known as Neomitranthes castellanosii, Marlieriopsis eggersii, Mitranthes eggersii, and Mitranthes castellanosii. I pay homage to the male botanists Henrik Franz Alexander von Eggers, and Alberto Castellanos. They first catalogued me in 1986.

Native to Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Guyana, Leeward Is., Peru, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..

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Xanthosoma undipes

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#481 They called me Xanthosoma undipes, also known as Arum nigrum var. schottii, Xanthosoma jacquinii, Xanthosoma atrovirens var. kochii, and Xanthosoma atrovirens var. moritzii. I pay homage to the male botanists Johann Wilhelm Karl Moritz, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, or Joseph Franz von Jacquin, Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, Heinrich Schott, Anton Schott, or Arthur Carl Victor Schott, and Karl Koch, Georg Friedrich Koch, Karl Heinrich Emil Koch, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Koch, or Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch. They first catalogued me in 1856.

Native to Bolivia, Brazil North, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Haiti, Leeward Is., Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Windward Is..