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Eulophia pulchra

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Eulophia pulchra. See image source here.

#957 They called me Eulophia pulchra, also known as Eulophia rouxii. I pay homage to the male botanist Nisius Roux. They first catalogued me in 1833.

Native to China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Inner Mongolia, Japan, Kamchatka, Korea, Kuril Is., Manchuria, Ogasawara-shoto, Primorye, Sakhalin, Taiwan, and Vietnam.

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Ipomoea fimbriosepala

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Ipomoea fimbriosepala. See image source here.

#951 They called me Ipomoea fimbriosepala, also known as Ipomoea smithii, and Ipomoea gilletii. I pay homage to the male botanists Gillet (I couldn’t find his records), and James Edward Smith, Johannes Jacobus Smith, Winifred Smith, Christo Albertyn Smith, Charles Piper Smith, Gerard Edwards Smith, Gilbert Morgan Smith, Henry George Smith, Hamilton Lanphere Smith, Albert Charles Smith, Alan Reid Smith, or William Wright Smith. They first catalogued me in 1845.

Native to Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Botswana, Caroline Is., China South-Central, China Southeast, Congo, East Himalaya, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Korea, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malaya, Maluku, Marianas, Mozambique, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Philippines, Queensland, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Aphananthe cuspidata

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Aphananthe cuspidata. See image source here.

#924 They called me Aphananthe cuspidata, also known as Gironniera thompsonii, and Gironniera curranii. I pay homage to the male botanists William Thompson, and Hugh McCollum Curran. They first catalogued me in 1873.

Native to Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Myanmar, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, and Vietnam.