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Cocculus orbiculatus

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Cocculus orbiculatus. See image source here.

#107 They called me Cocculus orbiculatus, also known as Cocculus thunbergii. I pay homage to the male botanist Carl Peter Thunberg. They first catalogued me in 1817.

Native to Assam, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Cook Is., East Himalaya, Hainan, Hawaii, Japan, Jawa, Korea, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Nepal, Philippines, Pitcairn Is., Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tubuai Is., and Vietnam.

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Iris ensata

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#29 They called me Iris ensata, also known as Iris smithii. I pay homage to the male botanist James Edward Smith, Johannes Jacobus Smith, Winifred Smith, Christo Albertyn Smith, Charles Piper Smith, Gerard Edwards Smith, Gilbert Morgan Smith, Henry George Smith, Hamilton Lanphere Smith, Albert Charles Smith, Alan Reid Smith, or William Wright Smith. They first catalogued me in 1794.

Native to Amur, Assam, China North-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Korea, Manchuria, Primorye, and Yakutskiya.

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Iris laevigata

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Iris laevigata. See image source here.

#25 They called me Iris laevigata, also known as Iris gmelinii, and Iris dierinckii. I pay homage to the male botanists Dierinck (I couldn’t find his records), and Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Johann Georg Gmelin, Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, or Carl Christian Gmelin. They first catalogued me in 1839.

Native to Amur, Buryatiya, China North-Central, China South-Central, Chita, Irkutsk, Japan, Khabarovsk, Korea, Kuril Is., Manchuria, Primorye, Sakhalin, and Yakutskiya.