Tag: Leeward Is.

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Oxalis latifolia

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Oxalis latifolia. See image source here.

#863 They called me Oxalis latifolia, also known as Oxalis eggersii, Oxalis buchtienii, and Ionoxalis buchtienii. I pay homage to the male botanists Henrik Franz Alexander von Eggers, and Buchtien (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1822.

Native to Arizona, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, California, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, New Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Marcgravia rectiflora

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Marcgravia rectiflora. See image source here.

#861 They called me Marcgravia rectiflora, also known as Marcgravia rectiflora var. jacquinii. I pay homage to the male botanist Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, or Joseph Franz von Jacquin. They first catalogued me in 1862.

Native to Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Leeward Is., Peru, and Puerto Rico.

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Corchorus orinocensis

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Corchorus orinocensis. See image source here.

#860 They called me Corchorus orinocensis, also known as Corchorus argutus var. blanchetii, and Corchorus argutus var. benthamii. I pay homage to the male botanists Blanchet (I couldn’t find his records), and George Bentham. They first catalogued me in 1823.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Aruba, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Galápagos, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Windward Is..