Tag: China Southeast

Categories
Plants

Oleandra musifolia

This plant's image
Oleandra musifolia. See image source here.

#809 They called me Oleandra musifolia, also known as Oleandra whangii, Oleandra moritzii, Aspidium moritzii, Oleandra parksii, Oleandra archboldii, and Oleandra christophersenii. I pay homage to the male botanists Whang (I couldn’t find his records), Johann Wilhelm Karl Moritz, Clifford R. Parks, Archbold (I couldn’t find his records), and Erling Christophersen. They first catalogued me in 1849.

Native to China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Philippines, Queensland, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Categories
Plants

Nelumbo nucifera

This plant's image
Nelumbo nucifera. See image source here.

#807 They called me Nelumbo nucifera, also known as Nelumbium rheedii, and Nelumbo komarovii. I pay homage to the male botanists Rheed (I couldn’t find his records), and Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov. They first catalogued me in 1788.

Native to Amur, Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, India, Iran, Japan, Jawa, Khabarovsk, Korea, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Manchuria, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, North Caucasus, Northern Territory, Pakistan, Philippines, Primorye, Queensland, South European Russi, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Transcaucasus, Ukraine, Vietnam, West Himalaya, and Western Australia.

Categories
Plants

Reissantia indica

This plant's image
Reissantia indica. See image source here.

#790 They called me Reissantia indica, also known as Hippocratea lobbii. I pay homage to the male botanist Thomas Lobb, or William Lobb. They first catalogued me in 1962.

Native to Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China Southeast, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, and Vietnam.