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Digitaria horizontalis

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Digitaria horizontalis. See image source here.

#655 They called me Digitaria horizontalis, also known as Panicum hamiltonii. I pay homage to the male botanist William Hamilton, Arthur Andrew Hamilton, Alexander Greenlaw Hamilton, or Arthur Hamilton. They first catalogued me in 1809.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bahamas, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cayman Is., Central African Repu, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Galápagos, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Suriname, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is., and Zaïre.

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Sisyrinchium hirsutum

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Sisyrinchium hirsutum. See image source here.

#649 They called me Sisyrinchium hirsutum, also known as Sisyrinchium gilbertii. I pay homage to the male botanist Edouard-Jean Gilbert. They first catalogued me in 1903.

Native to Brazil South, and Paraguay.

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Rumohra adiantiformis

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Rumohra adiantiformis. See image source here.

#641 They called me Rumohra adiantiformis, also known as Aspidium cunninghamii, Polypodium thomassetii, Dryopteris thomassetii, and Rumohra capuronii. I pay homage to the male botanists Thomasset (I couldn’t find his records), René Paul Raymond Capuron, and Gordon Herriott (Heriot) Cunningham, or Allan Cunningham. They first catalogued me in 1934.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina South, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cape Provinces, Central American Pac, Chatham Is., Chile Central, Chile South, Colombia, Comoros, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Falkland Is., Florida, Galápagos, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Mauritius, New Guinea, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Northern Provinces, Peru, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Réunion, Seychelles, Tasmania, Tristan da Cunha, Uruguay, Venezuela, Victoria, and Zimbabwe.