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Paspalum laxum

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Paspalum laxum. See image source here.

#424 They called me Paspalum laxum, also known as Paspalum richardii. I pay homage to the male botanist Louis Claude Richard, or Achille Richard. They first catalogued me in 1791.

Native to Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Central American Pac, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Florida, French Guiana, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., and Windward Is..

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Abarema jupunba

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#422 They called me Abarema jupunba, also known as Pithecellobium brongniartii. I pay homage to the male botanist Adolphe Theodore Brongniart, Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, or Alexandre Brongniart. They first catalogued me in 1936.

Native to Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Leeward Is., Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Trichilia septentrionalis

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#411 They called me Trichilia septentrionalis, also known as Trichilia moritzii, and Trichilia krukovii. I pay homage to the male botanists Johann Wilhelm Karl Moritz, and Krukov (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1878.

Native to Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Leeward Is., Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela, and Windward Is..