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Oenothera biennis

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Oenothera biennis. See image source here.

#980 They called me Oenothera biennis, also known as Oenothera chicaginensis var. bartlettii, Oenothera tacikii, Oenothera stucchii, Oenothera rostanskii, Oenothera victorinii, Oenothera reynoldsii, and Oenothera pellegrinii. I pay homage to the male botanists Harley Harris Bartlett, Tacik (I couldn’t find his records), Stucch (I couldn’t find his records), Rostansk (I couldn’t find his records), Victorin (I couldn’t find his records), Reynolds (I couldn’t find his records), and Pellegrin (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caprivi Strip, Central African Repu, Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.

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Luffa acutangula

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Luffa acutangula. See image source here.

#942 They called me Luffa acutangula, also known as Luffa forskalii, and Luffa kleinii. I pay homage to the male botanists Forskal (I couldn’t find his records), and Jacob Theodor Klein. They first catalogued me in 1832.

Native to Argentina South, Bolivia, Borneo, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Cape Provinces, Chile Central, Chile South, Colombia, Crozet Is., Free State, Kerguelen, KwaZulu-Natal, Macquarie Is., Madagascar, Marion-Prince Edward, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Peru, Prince Edward I., Queensland, Rwanda, Réunion, Tanzania, Tasmania, Tristan da Cunha, Uganda, Victoria, and Zaïre.

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Tephrosia purpurea

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#874 They called me Tephrosia purpurea, also known as Tephrosia hamiltonii, Tephrosia taylorii, Tephrosia wallichii, Cracca wallichii, Tephrosia mitchellii, Tephrosia schweinfurthii, Tephrosia franchetii, Galega haynii, Galega heynii, and Tephrosia grahamii. I pay homage to the male botanists Georg August Schweinfurth, Adrien René Franchet, Hayn (I couldn’t find his records), Heyn (I couldn’t find his records), Robert Graham, George Charles Wallich, or Nathaniel Wallich, M. E. Mitchell, or John Mitchell, William Hamilton, Arthur Andrew Hamilton, Alexander Greenlaw Hamilton, or Arthur Hamilton, and Sir George Taylor, Nigel Paul Taylor, Norman Taylor, or William Randolph Taylor. They first catalogued me in 1807.

Native to Algeria, Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caprivi Strip, Central African Repu, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Congo, Djibouti, East Himalaya, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Free State, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Gulf States, Hainan, India, Iran, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Maluku, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Northern Provinces, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Queensland, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sinai, Socotra, Somalia, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Uganda, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Is., West Himalaya, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.