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Ceropegia cumingiana

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Ceropegia cumingiana. See image source here.

#932 They called me Ceropegia cumingiana, also known as Ceropegia merrillii. I pay homage to the male botanist Elmer Drew Merrill. They first catalogued me in 1844.

Native to Borneo, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Maluku, New Guinea, Philippines, Queensland, and Sulawesi.

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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.