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Crepidium acuminatum

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Crepidium acuminatum. See image source here.

#1000 They called me Crepidium acuminatum, also known as Malaxis allanii, Malaxis wallichii, and Microstylis wallichii. I pay homage to the male botanists Harry Howard Barton Allan, and George Charles Wallich, or Nathaniel Wallich. They first catalogued me in 1995.

Native to Arizona, Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, California, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Florida, Galápagos, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, Nevada, New Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Adiantum monosorum

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Adiantum monosorum. See image source here.

#965 They called me Adiantum monosorum, also known as Adiantum robinsonii. I pay homage to the male botanist Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Charles Budd Robinson, Edward Armitage Robinson, George Leslie Robinson, Harold E. Robinson, or Alastair Robinson. They first catalogued me in 1874.

Native to Cayman Is., Cuba, and Jamaica.

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Hymenophyllum peltatum

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Hymenophyllum peltatum. See image source here.

#943 They called me Hymenophyllum peltatum, also known as Hymenophyllum mettenii, Hymenophyllum peltatum var. menziesii, and Hymenophyllum menziesii. I pay homage to the male botanists Metten (I couldn’t find his records), and Archibald Menzies. They first catalogued me in 1827.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Aruba, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..