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Dioscorea bulbifera

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Dioscorea bulbifera. See image source here.

#262 They called me Dioscorea bulbifera, also known as Dioscorea rogersii. I pay homage to the male botanist Richard Sanders Rogers. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Borneo, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Caprivi Strip, Caroline Is., Central African Repu, Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Congo, East Himalaya, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Kenya, Korea, Laccadive Is., Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Nigeria, Northern Territory, Pakistan, Philippines, Queensland, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.

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Nephrolepis brownii

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Nephrolepis brownii. See image source here.

#187 They called me Nephrolepis brownii, also known as Aspidium schkuhrii, and Nephrodium brownii. I pay homage to the male botanists Schkuhr (I couldn’t find his records), and Robert Brown, Clair Alan Brown, Nicholas Edward Brown, Addison Brown, Andrew Phillip Brown, or William Brown. They first catalogued me in 2005.

Native to Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Cook Is., Fiji, Hainan, India, Japan, Jawa, Kermadec Is., Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Marianas, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Philippines, Pitcairn Is., Queensland, Society Is., Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Taiwan, Thailand, Tokelau-Manihiki, Tonga, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., and Vietnam.

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Bruguiera gymnorhiza

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Bruguiera gymnorhiza. See image source here.

#160 They called me Bruguiera gymnorhiza, also known as Bruguiera zippelii, Bruguiera wightii, and Bruguiera rumphii. I pay homage to the male botanists Zippel (I couldn’t find his records), Rumph (I couldn’t find his records), and Robert Wight, or William Franklin Wight. They first catalogued me in 1798.

Native to Aldabra, Andaman Is., Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, Cape Provinces, Caroline Is., China Southeast, Christmas I., Djibouti, Fiji, Gilbert Is., Hainan, India, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesser Sunda Is., Madagascar, Malaya, Maluku, Marshall Is., Mauritius, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel I, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nauru, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Northern Territory, Pakistan, Philippines, Queensland, Samoa, Seychelles, Solomon Is., Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Tanzania, Thailand, Tonga, Vanuatu, Vietnam, and Wallis-Futuna Is..