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Acalypha poiretii

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Acalypha poiretii. See image source here.

#527 They called me Acalypha poiretii, also known as Ricinocarpus poiretii, Acalypha williamsii, and Gymnalypha jacquinii. I pay homage to the male botanists Poiret (I couldn’t find his records), Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, or Joseph Franz von Jacquin, and Benjamin Samuel Williams, Ion James Muirhead Williams, Mark L. Williams, or Samuel Williams. They first catalogued me in 1826.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, and Texas.

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Operculina macrocarpa

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Operculina macrocarpa. See image source here.

#517 They called me Operculina macrocarpa, also known as Piptostegia gomesii. I pay homage to the male botanist Bernardino António Gomes, or Bernardino António Gomes. They first catalogued me in 1902.

Native to Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Ghana, Guinea, Leeward Is., Paraguay, Togo, and Windward Is..

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Ipomoea tiliacea

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#516 They called me Ipomoea tiliacea, also known as Ipomoea krusensternii, and Calonyction roxburghii. I pay homage to the male botanists Krusenstern (I couldn’t find his records), and William Roxburgh. They first catalogued me in 1845.

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