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Urena lobata

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Urena lobata. See image source here.

#454 They called me Urena lobata, also known as Urena swartzii, and Urena lobata f. swartzii. I pay homage to the male botanist Olof Swartz. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Repu, Central American Pac, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ethiopia, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, India, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Kenya, Laos, Leeward Is., Liberia, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Venezuela, Vietnam, Windward Is., Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.

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Ouratea guildingii

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#452 They called me Ouratea guildingii, also known as Gomphia guildingii, and Trichouratea guildingii. I pay homage to the male botanist Lansdown Guilding. They first catalogued me in 1899.

Native to Colombia, Guyana, Leeward Is., Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..

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Micropholis guyanensis

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#441 They called me Micropholis guyanensis, also known as Mastichodendron williamsii, Pouteria piresii, Planchonella melinonii, Sideroxylon williamsii, Micropholis cowanii, Chrysophyllum melinonii, and Pouteria melinonii. I pay homage to the male botanists Pires (I couldn’t find his records), Melinon (I couldn’t find his records), John Macqueen Cowan, and Benjamin Samuel Williams, Ion James Muirhead Williams, Mark L. Williams, or Samuel Williams. They first catalogued me in 1891.

Native to Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Leeward Is., Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Windward Is..