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Eragrostis prolifera

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Eragrostis prolifera. See image source here.

#756 They called me Eragrostis prolifera, also known as Eragrostis salzmannii, and Eragrostis hagerupii. I pay homage to the male botanists Salzmann (I couldn’t find his records), and Olaf Hagerup. They first catalogued me in 1854.

Native to Angola, Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Benin, Brazil Northeast, Burkina, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Florida, Galápagos, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mali, Mauritania, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Panamá, Peru, Senegal, Southwest Caribbean, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Windward Is., and Zaïre.

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Mitreola petiolata

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Mitreola petiolata. See image source here.

#751 They called me Mitreola petiolata, also known as Mitreola swartzii. I pay homage to the male botanist Olof Swartz. They first catalogued me in 1841.

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

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Syngonium podophyllum

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Syngonium podophyllum. See image source here.

#747 They called me Syngonium podophyllum, also known as Syngonium poeppigii, Syngonium ruizii, Syngonium willdenowii, and Syngonium vellozianum var. poeppigii. I pay homage to the male botanists Eduard Friedrich Poeppig, Ruiz (I couldn’t find his records), and Carl Ludwig Willdenow, or Carl Ludwig von Willdenow. They first catalogued me in 1851.

Native to Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Venezuelan Antilles.