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Rourea minor

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Rourea minor. See image source here.

#416 They called me Rourea minor, also known as Connarus roxburghii, Santaloides afzelii, Rourea millettii, Santalodes roxburghii, Santaloides beccarii, and Rourea afzelii. I pay homage to the male botanists William Roxburgh, Afzel (I couldn’t find his records), Millett (I couldn’t find his records), and Beccar (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1931.

Native to Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Borneo, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Repu, China South-Central, China Southeast, Congo, East Himalaya, Fiji, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kenya, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malaya, Mali, Maluku, Myanmar, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Niue, Philippines, Samoa, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Uganda, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Is., Zambia, and Zaïre.

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Microlepia speluncae

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Microlepia speluncae. See image source here.

#402 They called me Microlepia speluncae, also known as Dicksonia lessonii. I pay homage to the male botanist Pierre Adolphe Lesson. They first catalogued me in 1858.

Native to Andaman Is., Angola, Argentina Northeast, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Caroline Is., Central African Repu, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Comoros, Cook Is., Cuba, East Himalaya, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Fiji, French Guiana, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, Hawaii, India, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Kazan-retto, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maluku, Marianas, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Ogasawara-shoto, Paraguay, Philippines, Queensland, Réunion, Samoa, Santa Cruz Is., Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Togo, Tonga, Uganda, Vanuatu, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.

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Hymenophyllum serrulatum

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Hymenophyllum serrulatum. See image source here.

#347 They called me Hymenophyllum serrulatum, also known as Leptocionium preslii, and Hymenophyllum preslii. I pay homage to the male botanist Jan Svatopluk Presl, or Carl Borivoj Presl. They first catalogued me in 1905.

Native to Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Caroline Is., Fiji, Jawa, Malaya, New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, and Vanuatu.