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Digitaria horizontalis

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Digitaria horizontalis. See image source here.

#655 They called me Digitaria horizontalis, also known as Panicum hamiltonii. I pay homage to the male botanist William Hamilton, Arthur Andrew Hamilton, Alexander Greenlaw Hamilton, or Arthur Hamilton. They first catalogued me in 1809.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bahamas, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cayman Is., Central African Repu, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Galápagos, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Suriname, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is., and Zaïre.

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Rumohra adiantiformis

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Rumohra adiantiformis. See image source here.

#641 They called me Rumohra adiantiformis, also known as Aspidium cunninghamii, Polypodium thomassetii, Dryopteris thomassetii, and Rumohra capuronii. I pay homage to the male botanists Thomasset (I couldn’t find his records), René Paul Raymond Capuron, and Gordon Herriott (Heriot) Cunningham, or Allan Cunningham. They first catalogued me in 1934.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina South, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cape Provinces, Central American Pac, Chatham Is., Chile Central, Chile South, Colombia, Comoros, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Falkland Is., Florida, Galápagos, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Mauritius, New Guinea, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Northern Provinces, Peru, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Réunion, Seychelles, Tasmania, Tristan da Cunha, Uruguay, Venezuela, Victoria, and Zimbabwe.

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Vachellia macracantha

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Vachellia macracantha. See image source here.

#570 They called me Vachellia macracantha, also known as Acacia humboldtii, Poponax cowellii, and Acacia cowellii. I pay homage to the male botanists Alexander von Humboldt, and Cowell (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 2006.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil North, Chile North, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Florida, French Guiana, Galápagos, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..