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Duranta erecta

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#214 They called me Duranta erecta, also known as Duranta repens var. lopez-palacii, Duranta baumgartenii, and Duranta repens var. mutisii. I pay homage to the male botanists Lopez-palac (I couldn’t find his records), Johann Christian Gottlob Baumgarten, and José Celestino Bruno Mutis. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Arizona, Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil West-Central, California, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Galápagos, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..

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Ipomoea indica

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#212 They called me Ipomoea indica, also known as Pharbitis learii, Convolvulus ruizii, Ipomoea learii, and Ipomoea austinii. I pay homage to the male botanists Lear (I couldn’t find his records), Ruiz (I couldn’t find his records), and Coe Finch Austin. They first catalogued me in 1917.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bahamas, Belize, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Central American Pac, Chile Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Florida, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Tunisia, Uruguay, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..

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Cyperus polystachyos

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#189 They called me Cyperus polystachyos, also known as Cyperus hartii, Cyperus dussii, Cyperus liebmannii, Cyperus gatesii, Cyperus boivinii, and Cyperus thouarsii. I pay homage to the male botanists Henry Chichester Hart, Duss (I couldn’t find his records), Liebmann (I couldn’t find his records), Gates (I couldn’t find his records), Thouars (I couldn’t find his records), and Joseph Robert Bernard Boivin, or Louis Hyacinthe Boivin. They first catalogued me in 1773.

Native to Alabama, Algeria, Andaman Is., Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arkansas, Ascension, Assam, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caroline Is., Cayman Is., Central African Repu, Chad, China North-Central, China Southeast, Cocos (Keeling) Is., Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Delaware, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Easter Is., Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Galápagos, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Hainan, Hawaii, Honduras, India, Iraq, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Kazan-retto, Kentucky, Kenya, Korea, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Laos, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Libya, Line Is., Louisiana, Madagascar, Maine, Malawi, Malaya, Maldives, Mali, Maluku, Manchuria, Marianas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Missouri, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, New Guinea, New Jersey, New South Wales, New York, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, North Carolina, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Ogasawara-shoto, Oklahoma, Pakistan, Palestine, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Philippines, Primorye, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rodrigues, Réunion, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Is., South Carolina, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, St.Helena, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tennessee, Texas, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Uruguay, Venezuela, Victoria, Vietnam, Virginia, West Virginia, Western Australia, Windward Is., Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.