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Physalis lagascae

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Physalis lagascae. See image source here.

#702 They called me Physalis lagascae, also known as Physalis dunalii. I pay homage to the male botanist Michel Felix Dunal. They first catalogued me in 1819.

Native to Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Trinidad-Tobago, and Venezuela.

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Euploca microphylla

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Euploca microphylla. See image source here.

#700 They called me Euploca microphylla, also known as Heliotropium ekmanii. I pay homage to the male botanist Erik Leonard Ekman. They first catalogued me in 2012.

Native to Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Leeward Is., and Puerto Rico.

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Talinum fruticosum

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Talinum fruticosum. See image source here.

#699 They called me Talinum fruticosum, also known as Calandrinia lockhartii, Talinum andrewsii, and Calandrinia andrewsii. I pay homage to the male botanists Lockhart (I couldn’t find his records), and 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 1789.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..