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Eleocharis acuta

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Eleocharis acuta. See image source here.

#76 They called me Eleocharis acuta, also known as Eleocharis cunninghamii, and Scirpus cunninghamii. I pay homage to the male botanist Gordon Herriott (Heriot) Cunningham, or Allan Cunningham. They first catalogued me in 1810.

Native to Chatham Is., Kermadec Is., New Guinea, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Norfolk Is., Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia.

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Tetragonia implexicoma

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Tetragonia implexicoma. See image source here.

#67 They called me Tetragonia implexicoma, also known as Trianthema maidenii. I pay homage to the male botanist Joseph Maiden. They first catalogued me in 1856.

Native to Chatham Is., Kermadec Is., New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Norfolk Is., Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, and Western Australia.

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Dodonaea viscosa

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Dodonaea viscosa. See image source here.

#58 They called me Dodonaea viscosa, also known as Dodonaea ehrenbergii, Dodonaea viscosa f. ehrenbergii, Dodonaea eriocarpa var. forbesii, Dodonaea eriocarpa var. skottsbergii, Dodonaea eriocarpa var. hillebrandii, and Dodonaea eriocarpa var. sherffii. I pay homage to the male botanists Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Skottsberg (I couldn’t find his records), Sherff (I couldn’t find his records), William (Wilhelm) Hillebrand, or William Francis Hillebrand, and Charles Noyes Forbes, Edward Forbes, or Henry Ogg Forbes. They first catalogued me in 1760.

Native to Afghanistan, Aldabra, Andaman Is., Angola, Argentina Northeast, Arizona, Assam, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Burundi, California, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Caroline Is., Cayman Is., Central African Repu, Chatham Is., Chile Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Cocos (Keeling) Is., Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Cook Is., Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, Florida, French Guiana, Galápagos, Gambia, Ghana, Gilbert Is., Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf States, Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, India, Iran, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jawa, Kazan-retto, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maldives, Maluku, Marshall Is., Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nauru, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Is., Northern Territory, Ogasawara-shoto, Oman, Pakistan, Panamá, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rwanda, Samoa, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Society Is., Solomon Is., Southwest Caribbean, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad-Tobago, Tubuai Is., Turks-Caicos Is., Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Is., West Himalaya, Western Australia, Windward Is., Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.