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Pavonia hastata

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Pavonia hastata. See image source here.

#550 They called me Pavonia hastata, also known as Pavonia jonesii. I pay homage to the male botanist Eustace Wilkinson Jones, George Neville Jones, or Marcus Eugene Jones. They first catalogued me in 1787.

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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.

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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.