Tag: Leeward Is.

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Cyperus planifolius

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Cyperus planifolius. See image source here.

#280 They called me Cyperus planifolius, also known as Cyperus planifolius var. pickelii, Cyperus solmsii, and Cyperus krugii. I pay homage to the male botanists Pickel (I couldn’t find his records), Solms (I couldn’t find his records), and Karl (Carl) Wilhelm Leopold Krug. They first catalogued me in 1792.

Native to Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil Northeast, Cayman Is., Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Florida, Georgia, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Southeast, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Solanum torvum

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Solanum torvum. See image source here.

#279 They called me Solanum torvum, also known as Solanum mannii, and Solanum wightii. I pay homage to the male botanists Gustav Mann, and Robert Wight, or William Franklin Wight. They first catalogued me in 1788.

Native to Bahamas, Belize, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Nephrolepis biserrata

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#273 They called me Nephrolepis biserrata, also known as Aspidium hoffmannseggii, and Nephrodium hoffmanseggii. I pay homage to the male botanists Hoffmansegg (I couldn’t find his records), and Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg, or Johann Centurius von Hoffmannsegg. They first catalogued me in 1834.

Native to Angola, Argentina Northeast, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Borneo, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cayman Is., Central African Repu, Central American Pac, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Colombia, Comoros, Cook Is., Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Galápagos, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Hainan, Honduras, India, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Kazan-retto, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Louisiana, Madagascar, Malaya, Marianas, Marquesas, Marshall Is., Mauritius, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Niue, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Panamá, Peru, Philippines, Pitcairn Is., Puerto Rico, Queensland, Réunion, Samoa, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Society Is., Solomon Is., South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Transcaucasus, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Uganda, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam, Western Australia, Windward Is., Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.