Tag: Leeward Is.

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Manilkara bidentata

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Manilkara bidentata. See image source here.

#385 They called me Manilkara bidentata, also known as Manilkara balata var. schomburgkii, Mimusops balata var. schomburgkii, Manilkara williamsii, Manilkara balata var. hartii, Mimusops balata var. hartii, Mimusops commersonii, Kaukenia commersonii, and Imbricaria commersonii. I pay homage to the male botanists Moritz Richard Schomburgk, Henry Chichester Hart, Commerson (I couldn’t find his records), and Benjamin Samuel Williams, Ion James Muirhead Williams, Mark L. Williams, or Samuel Williams. They first catalogued me in 1932.

Native to Bolivia, Brazil North, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Leeward Is., Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Baccharis pedunculata

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#384 They called me Baccharis pedunculata, also known as Eupatorium braunii, and Baccharis braunii. I pay homage to the male botanist Alexander Braun, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Braun, or Alexander Karl Heinrich Braun. They first catalogued me in 1959.

Native to Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Leeward Is., Mexico Southeast, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Scaevola plumieri

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#381 They called me Scaevola plumieri, also known as Scaevola thunbergii. I pay homage to the male botanist Carl Peter Thunberg. They first catalogued me in 1791.

Native to Andaman Is., Angola, Bahamas, Benin, Bermuda, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Cambodia, Cape Provinces, Cayman Is., Chagos Archipelago, Congo, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Florida, Gabon, Galápagos, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Haiti, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kazan-retto, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Leeward Is., Liberia, Louisiana, Madagascar, Malaya, Mauritius, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel I, Netherlands Antilles, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Ogasawara-shoto, Pakistan, Puerto Rico, Réunion, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Is., Somalia, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Texas, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Vietnam.