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Epithema horsfieldii

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Epithema horsfieldii. See image source here.

#926 They called me Epithema horsfieldii, also known as Aikinia horsfieldii. I pay homage to the male botanist Thomas Horsfield. They first catalogued me in 1845.

Native to Jawa, and Lesser Sunda Is..

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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.

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Koordersiochloa longiarista

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Koordersiochloa longiarista. See image source here.

#923 They called me Koordersiochloa longiarista, also known as Pseudostreptogyne richardii. I pay homage to the male botanist Louis Claude Richard, or Achille Richard. They first catalogued me in 2012.

Native to Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Ethiopia, Gulf of Guinea Is., Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesser Sunda Is., Malawi, Nigeria, Philippines, Réunion, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.