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Gossypium hirsutum

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Gossypium hirsutum. See image source here.

#334 They called me Gossypium hirsutum, also known as Gossypium schottii, Gossypium harrisii, Gossypium birkinshawii, Gossypium rhorii, Gossypium hirsutum f. pollardii, and Gossypium morrillii. I pay homage to the male botanists Birkinshaw (I couldn’t find his records), Rhor (I couldn’t find his records), Benedict John Pollard, Morrill (I couldn’t find his records), Warwick Harris, or Wayne K. Harris, and Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, Heinrich Schott, Anton Schott, or Arthur Carl Victor Schott. They first catalogued me in 1763.

Native to Aruba, Brazil Northeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Southwest Caribbean, Suriname, Venezuela, and Venezuelan Antilles.

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Paspalum repens

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Paspalum repens. See image source here.

#317 They called me Paspalum repens, also known as Paspalum frankii. I pay homage to the male botanist Albert Bernhard Frank. They first catalogued me in 1772.

Native to Alabama, Argentina Northeast, Arkansas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Illinois, Indiana, Jamaica, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mexico Southeast, Mississippi, Missouri, Nicaragua, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, South Carolina, Suriname, Tennessee, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, Virginia, and West Virginia.

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Tillandsia utriculata

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Tillandsia utriculata. See image source here.

#315 They called me Tillandsia utriculata, also known as Tillandsia bartramii, Allardtia potockii, and Tillandsia sintenisii. I pay homage to the male botanists Potock (I couldn’t find his records), Sintenis (I couldn’t find his records), and John Bartram, Edwin Bunting Bartram, or William Bartram. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Bahamas, Belize, Cayman Is., Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Florida, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, and Windward Is..