Tag: Leeward Is.

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Clibadium sylvestre

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Clibadium sylvestre. See image source here.

#643 They called me Clibadium sylvestre, also known as Clibadium schomburgkii, and Clibadium vargasii. I pay homage to the male botanists Moritz Richard Schomburgk, and Vargas (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1882.

Native to Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Leeward Is., Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Oplismenus compositus

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#632 They called me Oplismenus compositus, also known as Oplismenus thiebautii, Pollinia jacquinii, Oplismenus liebmannii, Oplismenus junghuhnii, Orthopogon junghuhnii, and Oplismenus owatarii. I pay homage to the male botanists Thiebaut (I couldn’t find his records), Liebmann (I couldn’t find his records), Junghuhn (I couldn’t find his records), Owatar (I couldn’t find his records), and Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, or Joseph Franz von Jacquin. They first catalogued me in 1812.

Native to Alabama, Andaman Is., Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arkansas, Assam, Bangladesh, Belize, Bermuda, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Brazil South, Burundi, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Florida, Georgia, Guatemala, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Kazan-retto, Kenya, Korea, Laccadive Is., Laos, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Louisiana, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maldives, Maluku, Mauritius, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Missouri, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., North Carolina, Northern Territory, Ogasawara-shoto, Oklahoma, Oman, Pakistan, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Réunion, Seychelles, Socotra, South Carolina, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Tanzania, Texas, Thailand, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Uruguay, Vietnam, Virginia, West Himalaya, Windward Is., Yemen, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

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Cissus trifoliata

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Cissus trifoliata. See image source here.

#626 They called me Cissus trifoliata, also known as Cissus incisa var. andrewsii. I pay homage to the male botanist Cecil Rollo Payton Andrews, Charles William Andrews, Ebenezer Baldwin Andrews, George W. Andrews, Henry Nathaniel Andrews, Albert LeRoy Andrews, or Henry Cranke Andrews. They first catalogued me in 1759.

Native to Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Aruba, Bahamas, Cayman Is., Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Florida, Georgia, Guatemala, Haiti, Jamaica, Kansas, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Missouri, Netherlands Antilles, New Mexico, Nicaragua, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, Texas, Turks-Caicos Is., and Venezuela.