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Manilkara bidentata

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Manilkara bidentata. See image source here.

#385 They called me Manilkara bidentata, also known as Manilkara balata var. schomburgkii, Mimusops balata var. schomburgkii, Manilkara williamsii, Manilkara balata var. hartii, Mimusops balata var. hartii, Mimusops commersonii, Kaukenia commersonii, and Imbricaria commersonii. I pay homage to the male botanists Moritz Richard Schomburgk, Henry Chichester Hart, Commerson (I couldn’t find his records), and Benjamin Samuel Williams, Ion James Muirhead Williams, Mark L. Williams, or Samuel Williams. They first catalogued me in 1932.

Native to Bolivia, Brazil North, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Leeward Is., Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Baccharis pedunculata

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Baccharis pedunculata. See image source here.

#384 They called me Baccharis pedunculata, also known as Eupatorium braunii, and Baccharis braunii. I pay homage to the male botanist Alexander Braun, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Braun, or Alexander Karl Heinrich Braun. They first catalogued me in 1959.

Native to Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Leeward Is., Mexico Southeast, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Heliconia psittacorum

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Heliconia psittacorum. See image source here.

#379 They called me Heliconia psittacorum, also known as Heliconia andrewsii. I pay homage to the male botanist Cecil Rollo Payton Andrews, Charles William Andrews, Ebenezer Baldwin Andrews, George W. Andrews, Henry Nathaniel Andrews, Albert LeRoy Andrews, or Henry Cranke Andrews. They first catalogued me in 1782.

Native to Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Panamá, Paraguay, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, and Venezuela.