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Dichaea pendula

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#900 They called me Dichaea pendula, also known as Dichaea swartzii, and Dichaea pendula var. swartzii. I pay homage to the male botanist Olof Swartz. They first catalogued me in 1903.

Native to Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..

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Cyperus sphacelatus

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#896 They called me Cyperus sphacelatus, also known as Cyperus balbisii, and Cyperus duchaisingii. I pay homage to the male botanists Giovanni Battista Balbis, and Duchaising (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1773.

Native to Angola, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Central American Pac, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, French Guiana, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Suriname, Tanzania, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Venezuela, Windward Is., Zambia, and Zaïre.

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Peperomia microphylla

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#893 They called me Peperomia microphylla, also known as Peperomia gilbertii. I pay homage to the male botanist Edouard-Jean Gilbert. They first catalogued me in 1816.

Native to Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.