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Leucas lavandulifolia

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#403 They called me Leucas lavandulifolia, also known as Leucas brownii. I pay homage to the male botanist Robert Brown, Clair Alan Brown, Nicholas Edward Brown, Addison Brown, Andrew Phillip Brown, or William Brown. They first catalogued me in 1812.

Native to Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, and Thailand.

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Microlepia speluncae

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Microlepia speluncae. See image source here.

#402 They called me Microlepia speluncae, also known as Dicksonia lessonii. I pay homage to the male botanist Pierre Adolphe Lesson. They first catalogued me in 1858.

Native to Andaman Is., Angola, Argentina Northeast, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Caroline Is., Central African Repu, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Comoros, Cook Is., Cuba, East Himalaya, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Fiji, French Guiana, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, Hawaii, India, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Kazan-retto, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maluku, Marianas, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Ogasawara-shoto, Paraguay, Philippines, Queensland, Réunion, Samoa, Santa Cruz Is., Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Togo, Tonga, Uganda, Vanuatu, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.

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Juncus articulatus

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Juncus articulatus. See image source here.

#395 They called me Juncus articulatus, also known as Juncus tatewakii, Juncus engelmannii, and Juncus articulatus f. zapalowiczii. I pay homage to the male botanists Tatewak (I couldn’t find his records), Zapalowicz (I couldn’t find his records), and George Engelmann, or Georg Engelmann. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Afghanistan, Alaska, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Arizona, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Canary Is., Central European Rus, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Colorado, Connecticut, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Finland, France, Føroyar, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Idaho, Illinois, India, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuril Is., Labrador, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Maine, Manchuria, Massachusetts, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mongolia, Morocco, Nebraska, Nepal, Netherlands, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Newfoundland, North Carolina, North Caucasus, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Norway, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Palestine, Pennsylvania, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Qinghai, Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Sicilia, South Dakota, South European Russi, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Ukraine, Utah, Uzbekistan, Vermont, Vietnam, Virginia, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, West Virginia, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, and Yugoslavia.