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Acalypha poiretii

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Acalypha poiretii. See image source here.

#527 They called me Acalypha poiretii, also known as Ricinocarpus poiretii, Acalypha williamsii, and Gymnalypha jacquinii. I pay homage to the male botanists Poiret (I couldn’t find his records), Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, or Joseph Franz von Jacquin, and Benjamin Samuel Williams, Ion James Muirhead Williams, Mark L. Williams, or Samuel Williams. They first catalogued me in 1826.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, and Texas.

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Haematoxylum campechianum

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Haematoxylum campechianum. See image source here.

#525 They called me Haematoxylum campechianum, also known as Cymbosepalum baronii. I pay homage to the male botanist P. Alexis Baron. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico Gulf, and Mexico Southeast.

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Rhabdadenia biflora

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Rhabdadenia biflora. See image source here.

#518 They called me Rhabdadenia biflora, also known as Echites billbergii, Dipladenia billbergii, Echites ehrenbergii, Rhabdadenia ehrenbergii, and Echites bilbergii. I pay homage to the male botanists Gustaf Johan Billberg, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, and Bilberg (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1860.

Native to Bahamas, Belize, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Nicaragua, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Windward Is..