Tag: Gulf of Guinea Is.

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Cenchrus purpureus

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Cenchrus purpureus. See image source here.

#178 They called me Cenchrus purpureus, also known as Pennisetum benthamii. I pay homage to the male botanist George Bentham. They first catalogued me in 2010.

Native to Aldabra, Algeria, Angola, Benin, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Oman, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.

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Fimbristylis cymosa

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Fimbristylis cymosa. See image source here.

#155 They called me Fimbristylis cymosa, also known as Fimbristylis warburgii, and Fimbristylis sintenisii. I pay homage to the male botanists Sintenis (I couldn’t find his records), and E. F. Warburg, Edmund Frederic Warburg, or Otto Warburg. They first catalogued me in 1810.

Native to Aldabra, Andaman Is., Aruba, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Cape Provinces, Caroline Is., Cayman Is., Chagos Archipelago, China Southeast, Christmas I., Cocos (Keeling) Is., Colombia, Congo, Cook Is., Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Ghana, Gilbert Is., Guatemala, Gulf of Guinea Is., Gulf States, Guyana, Hainan, Hawaii, Honduras, Howland-Baker Is., India, Iran, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Kenya, Korea, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malaya, Maldives, Maluku, Marianas, Marshall Is., Mauritius, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel I, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Northern Territory, Oman, Pakistan, Panamá, Philippines, Phoenix Is., Puerto Rico, Queensland, Réunion, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Society Is., Socotra, Solomon Is., Somalia, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Taiwan, Tanzania, Texas, Thailand, Togo, Tokelau-Manihiki, Tonga, Trinidad-Tobago, Tuamotu, Turks-Caicos Is., Tuvalu, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam, Wake I., Wallis-Futuna Is., Western Australia, Windward Is., Yemen, Zambia, and Zaïre.

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Halodule wrightii

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Halodule wrightii. See image source here.

#151 They called me Halodule wrightii, also known as Diplanthera wrightii, and Diplanthera dawsonii. I pay homage to the male botanists Elmer Yale Dawson, or Murray Ian Dawson, and Charles Henry Wright, Charles Wright, Edward Perceval (Percival) Wright, John Wright, or William Wright. They first catalogued me in 1868.

Native to Alabama, Angola, Bahamas, Belize, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Florida, Gabon, Guatemala, Gulf of Guinea Is., Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Mauritania, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mississippi, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, North Carolina, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Senegal, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, and Windward Is..