Tag: East Himalaya

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Sphaeropteris glauca

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Sphaeropteris glauca. See image source here.

#109 They called me Sphaeropteris glauca, also known as Alsophila mertensii, Alsophila smithii, Cyathea smithii, and Hemitelia smithii. I pay homage to the male botanists Franz Carl Mertens, and James Edward Smith, Johannes Jacobus Smith, Winifred Smith, Christo Albertyn Smith, Charles Piper Smith, Gerard Edwards Smith, Gilbert Morgan Smith, Henry George Smith, Hamilton Lanphere Smith, Albert Charles Smith, Alan Reid Smith, or William Wright Smith. They first catalogued me in 1970.

Native to Bangladesh, Borneo, East Himalaya, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Cocculus orbiculatus

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Cocculus orbiculatus. See image source here.

#107 They called me Cocculus orbiculatus, also known as Cocculus thunbergii. I pay homage to the male botanist Carl Peter Thunberg. They first catalogued me in 1817.

Native to Assam, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Cook Is., East Himalaya, Hainan, Hawaii, Japan, Jawa, Korea, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Nepal, Philippines, Pitcairn Is., Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tubuai Is., and Vietnam.

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Dracaena angustifolia

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Dracaena angustifolia. See image source here.

#85 They called me Dracaena angustifolia, also known as Cordyline rumphii, Cordyline cheesemanii, Dracaena × bartetii, Dracaena gibsonii, Cordyline dennisonii, Cordyline baptistii, Dracaena chelsonii, Cordyline bartelii, Cordyline macarthurii, Dracaena flemingii, Cordyline duffii, Calodracon jacquinii, Cordyline thomsonii, Cordyline chelsonii, Cordyline hendersonii, Cordyline laingii, Cordyline jacquinii, Cordyline youngii, Dracaena hendersonii, and Cordyline williamsii. I pay homage to the male botanists Rumph (I couldn’t find his records), Thomas Frederic Cheeseman, Bartet (I couldn’t find his records), Dennison (I couldn’t find his records), Baptist (I couldn’t find his records), Chelson (I couldn’t find his records), Jim A. Bartel, Macarthur (I couldn’t find his records), Fleming (I couldn’t find his records), Duff (I couldn’t find his records), Laing (I couldn’t find his records), Young (I couldn’t find his records), Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, or Joseph Franz von Jacquin, George Thomson, or Charles Wyville Thomson, Neil Gibson, Alexander Gibson, or William Hamilton Gibson, Benjamin Samuel Williams, Ion James Muirhead Williams, Mark L. Williams, or Samuel Williams, and George Henderson, Edward George Henderson, Murray Ross Henderson, Norlan C. Henderson, Andrew Augustus Henderson, Archibald Henderson, or Andrew Henderson. They first catalogued me in 1814.

Native to Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Hainan, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Northern Territory, Philippines, Queensland, Solomon Is., Thailand, and Vietnam.