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Pectis linearis

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Pectis linearis. See image source here.

#608 They called me Pectis linearis, also known as Pectis elongata var. schottii, and Pectis schottii. I pay homage to the male botanist Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, Heinrich Schott, Anton Schott, or Arthur Carl Victor Schott. They first catalogued me in 1832.

Native to Aruba, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Cecropia peltata

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Cecropia peltata. See image source here.

#596 They called me Cecropia peltata, also known as Cecropia goodspeedii. I pay homage to the male botanist Thomas Harper Goodspeed. They first catalogued me in 1759.

Native to Belize, Brazil North, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panamá, Southwest Caribbean, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..

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Piper dilatatum

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Piper dilatatum. See image source here.

#594 They called me Piper dilatatum, also known as Piper eggersii, Piper readii, Piper grahamii, and Piper seitzii. I pay homage to the male botanists Henrik Franz Alexander von Eggers, Read (I couldn’t find his records), Robert Graham, and Seitz (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1792.

Native to Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..