Tag: French Guiana

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Piper amalago

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#511 They called me Piper amalago, also known as Piper diguetii, Piper wilsonii, Piper lundellii, Piper macintoshii, Piper medium var. leonardii, Piper wulfschlaegelii, Piper henshenii, and Piper deamii. I pay homage to the male botanists Diguet (I couldn’t find his records), Lundell (I couldn’t find his records), Macintosh (I couldn’t find his records), Leonard (I couldn’t find his records), Wulfschlaegel (I couldn’t find his records), Henshen (I couldn’t find his records), Deam (I couldn’t find his records), and Edward Elmer Wilson, Ernest Henry Wilson, Hugh Wilson, or William M. Wilson. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Cyathea pungens

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#510 They called me Cyathea pungens, also known as Cyathea eatonii, Cyathea gleasonii, Trichipteris eatonii, Trichipteris gleasonii, Alsophila eatonii, and Alsophila gleasonii. I pay homage to the male botanists Henry Allan Gleason, and Amos Eaton, Hezekiah Hulbert Eaton, or Alvah Augustus Eaton. They first catalogued me in 1929.

Native to Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Haiti, Leeward Is., Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Portulaca pilosa

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#492 They called me Portulaca pilosa, also known as Portulaca karwinskii, and Portulaca ehrenbergii. I pay homage to the male botanists Karwinsk (I couldn’t find his records), and Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kansas, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, Nicaragua, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Southwest Caribbean, Tennessee, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..