Tag: East Himalaya

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Asplenium pellucidum

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Asplenium pellucidum. See image source here.

#383 They called me Asplenium pellucidum, also known as Asplenium boivinii, and Asplenium hilsenbergii. I pay homage to the male botanists Hilsenberg (I couldn’t find his records), and Joseph Robert Bernard Boivin, or Louis Hyacinthe Boivin. They first catalogued me in 1786.

Native to Borneo, Cambodia, Caroline Is., Comoros, East Himalaya, Lesser Sunda Is., Madagascar, Malaya, Maluku, Marianas, Mauritius, Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Queensland, Rodrigues, Réunion, Seychelles, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Sumatera, and Thailand.

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Digitaria sanguinalis

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#380 They called me Digitaria sanguinalis, also known as Digitaria sanguinalis var. stewartii, and Panicum kunthii. I pay homage to the male botanists William Sheldon Stewart, and Carl Sigismund Kunth. They first catalogued me in 1771.

Native to Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andaman Is., Azores, Baleares, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Bulgaria, Burundi, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., East Himalaya, Egypt, France, Greece, Gulf States, Hungary, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Kriti, Krym, Laccadive Is., Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Maldives, Manchuria, Morocco, Nicobar Is., North Caucasus, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, South China Sea, South European Russi, Spain, Sudan, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Xinjiang, and Yugoslavia.

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Aristolochia acuminata

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#378 They called me Aristolochia acuminata, also known as Aristolochia eschscholtzii. I pay homage to the male botanist Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz. They first catalogued me in 1783.

Native to Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Queensland, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and Western Australia.