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Cyperus sphacelatus

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Cyperus sphacelatus. See image source here.

#896 They called me Cyperus sphacelatus, also known as Cyperus balbisii, and Cyperus duchaisingii. I pay homage to the male botanists Giovanni Battista Balbis, and Duchaising (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1773.

Native to Angola, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Central American Pac, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, French Guiana, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Suriname, Tanzania, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Venezuela, Windward Is., Zambia, and Zaïre.

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Psychotria camptopus

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Psychotria camptopus. See image source here.

#886 They called me Psychotria camptopus, also known as Cephaelis mannii, Uragoga mannii, and Camptopus mannii. I pay homage to the male botanist Gustav Mann. They first catalogued me in 1975.

Native to Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, and Gulf of Guinea Is..

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Spathandra blakeoides

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Spathandra blakeoides. See image source here.

#885 They called me Spathandra blakeoides, also known as Memecylon mannii, Memecylon tessmannii, Memecylon mildbraedii, and Memecylon millenii. I pay homage to the male botanists Gustav Mann, Tessmann (I couldn’t find his records), Johannes Mildbraed, and Millen (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1978.

Native to Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Zaïre.