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Desmodium procumbens

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Desmodium procumbens. See image source here.

#781 They called me Desmodium procumbens, also known as Desmodium sprengelii. I pay homage to the male botanist Kurt Sprengel, Christian Konrad (Conrad) Sprengel, or Anton Sprengel. They first catalogued me in 1893.

Native to Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Aruba, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Galápagos, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, New Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..

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Dendropanax arboreus

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Dendropanax arboreus. See image source here.

#775 They called me Dendropanax arboreus, also known as Gilibertia schippii, Gilibertia rothschuhii, Dendropanax schippii, Dendropanax juergensenii, Gilibertia juergensenii, and Sciodaphyllum jacquinii. I pay homage to the male botanists Schipp (I couldn’t find his records), Rothschuh (I couldn’t find his records), Juergensen (I couldn’t find his records), and Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, or Joseph Franz von Jacquin. They first catalogued me in 1854.

Native to Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Venezuelan Antilles.

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Cyrilla racemiflora

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Cyrilla racemiflora. See image source here.

#767 They called me Cyrilla racemiflora, also known as Cyrilla perrottetii, Cyrilla antillana var. perrottetii, and Stachyanthemum schomburgkii. I pay homage to the male botanists Perrottet (I couldn’t find his records), and Moritz Richard Schomburgk. They first catalogued me in 1767.

Native to Alabama, Belize, Brazil North, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Delaware, Dominican Republic, Florida, French Guiana, Georgia, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Nicaragua, North Carolina, Panamá, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Suriname, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Virginia, and Windward Is..