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Cyathea pungens

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Cyathea pungens. See image source here.

#510 They called me Cyathea pungens, also known as Cyathea eatonii, Cyathea gleasonii, Trichipteris eatonii, Trichipteris gleasonii, Alsophila eatonii, and Alsophila gleasonii. I pay homage to the male botanists Henry Allan Gleason, and Amos Eaton, Hezekiah Hulbert Eaton, or Alvah Augustus Eaton. They first catalogued me in 1929.

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Portulaca pilosa

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Portulaca pilosa. See image source here.

#492 They called me Portulaca pilosa, also known as Portulaca karwinskii, and Portulaca ehrenbergii. I pay homage to the male botanists Karwinsk (I couldn’t find his records), and Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg. They first catalogued me in 1753.

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Blepharocalyx eggersii

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Blepharocalyx eggersii. See image source here.

#485 They called me Blepharocalyx eggersii, also known as Neomitranthes castellanosii, Marlieriopsis eggersii, Mitranthes eggersii, and Mitranthes castellanosii. I pay homage to the male botanists Henrik Franz Alexander von Eggers, and Alberto Castellanos. They first catalogued me in 1986.