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Cyperus surinamensis

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Cyperus surinamensis. See image source here.

#436 They called me Cyperus surinamensis, also known as Cyperus meyenii. I pay homage to the male botanist Franz Meyen, or Franz Julius Ferdinand Meyen. They first catalogued me in 1773.

Native to Alabama, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arkansas, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Kansas, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Nicaragua, Oklahoma, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Suriname, Tennessee, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Abarema jupunba

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Abarema jupunba. See image source here.

#422 They called me Abarema jupunba, also known as Pithecellobium brongniartii. I pay homage to the male botanist Adolphe Theodore Brongniart, Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, or Alexandre Brongniart. They first catalogued me in 1936.

Native to Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Leeward Is., Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Trichilia septentrionalis

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Trichilia septentrionalis. See image source here.

#411 They called me Trichilia septentrionalis, also known as Trichilia moritzii, and Trichilia krukovii. I pay homage to the male botanists Johann Wilhelm Karl Moritz, and Krukov (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1878.

Native to Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Leeward Is., Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela, and Windward Is..