Tag: Lesser Sunda Is.

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Kibara coriacea

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Kibara coriacea. See image source here.

#621 They called me Kibara coriacea, also known as Sciadicarpus brongniartii, Kibara vidalii, and Kibara warburgii. I pay homage to the male botanists Gustave Prosper Vidal, Adolphe Theodore Brongniart, Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, or Alexandre Brongniart, and E. F. Warburg, Edmund Frederic Warburg, or Otto Warburg. They first catalogued me in 1855.

Native to Borneo, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, and Thailand.

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Aglaonema simplex

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Aglaonema simplex. See image source here.

#616 They called me Aglaonema simplex, also known as Aglaonema nieuwenhuisii, and Aglaonema simplex f. nieuwenhuisii. I pay homage to the male botanist A.W. Nieuwenhuis. They first catalogued me in 1837.

Native to Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Scurrula parasitica

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Scurrula parasitica. See image source here.

#615 They called me Scurrula parasitica, also known as Scurrula roxburghii. I pay homage to the male botanist William Roxburgh. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, and Vietnam.