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Piper amalago

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#511 They called me Piper amalago, also known as Piper diguetii, Piper wilsonii, Piper lundellii, Piper macintoshii, Piper medium var. leonardii, Piper wulfschlaegelii, Piper henshenii, and Piper deamii. I pay homage to the male botanists Diguet (I couldn’t find his records), Lundell (I couldn’t find his records), Macintosh (I couldn’t find his records), Leonard (I couldn’t find his records), Wulfschlaegel (I couldn’t find his records), Henshen (I couldn’t find his records), Deam (I couldn’t find his records), and Edward Elmer Wilson, Ernest Henry Wilson, Hugh Wilson, or William M. Wilson. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Licaria triandra

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#509 They called me Licaria triandra, also known as Misanteca juergensenii, Tetranthera cervantesii, Litsea cervantesii, Laurus cervantesii, Misanteca cervantesii, Acrodiclidium cervantesii, and Licaria cervantesii. I pay homage to the male botanists Juergensen (I couldn’t find his records), and Vicente de Cervantes. They first catalogued me in 1937.

Native to Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Florida, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Pouteria multiflora

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#502 They called me Pouteria multiflora, also known as Radlkoferella urbanii, Pouteria multiflora var. urbanii, Lucuma urbanii, and Lucuma multiflora var. urbanii. I pay homage to the male botanist Ignatz Urban. They first catalogued me in 1936.

Native to Brazil North, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Windward Is..