Tag: Leeward Is.

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Cyrilla racemiflora

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Cyrilla racemiflora. See image source here.

#767 They called me Cyrilla racemiflora, also known as Cyrilla perrottetii, Cyrilla antillana var. perrottetii, and Stachyanthemum schomburgkii. I pay homage to the male botanists Perrottet (I couldn’t find his records), and Moritz Richard Schomburgk. They first catalogued me in 1767.

Native to Alabama, Belize, Brazil North, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Delaware, Dominican Republic, Florida, French Guiana, Georgia, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Nicaragua, North Carolina, Panamá, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Suriname, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Virginia, and Windward Is..

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Trichomanes trigonum

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Trichomanes trigonum. See image source here.

#760 They called me Trichomanes trigonum, also known as Trichomanes kaulfussii, and Ptilophyllum kaulfussii. I pay homage to the male botanist Georg Friedrich Kaulfuss. They first catalogued me in 1811.

Native to Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Varronia curassavica

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Varronia curassavica. See image source here.

#757 They called me Varronia curassavica, also known as Cordia anderssonii, and Lithocardium anderssonii. I pay homage to the male botanist Nils Johan Andersson. They first catalogued me in 1760.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Aruba, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Leeward Is., Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..