Tag: Lesser Sunda Is.

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Argyreia mollis

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Argyreia mollis. See image source here.

#554 They called me Argyreia mollis, also known as Argyreia championii, Mouroucoa championii, and Lettsomia championii. I pay homage to the male botanist John George Champion. They first catalogued me in 1834.

Native to Andaman Is., Bangladesh, Cambodia, Hainan, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Sumatera, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Panicum trachyrhachis

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Panicum trachyrhachis. See image source here.

#542 They called me Panicum trachyrhachis, also known as Ichnanthus harmandii, Panicum kerrii, and Panicum harmandii. I pay homage to the male botanists Harmand (I couldn’t find his records), and Arthur Francis George Kerr. They first catalogued me in 1878.

Native to Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., New Guinea, Northern Territory, Queensland, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Digitaria longiflora

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Digitaria longiflora. See image source here.

#536 They called me Digitaria longiflora, also known as Digitaria corradii, Digitaria preslii, Digitaria friesii, Paspalum preslii, and Digitaria roxburghii. I pay homage to the male botanists Corrad (I couldn’t find his records), Elias Magnus Fries, William Roxburgh, and Jan Svatopluk Presl, or Carl Borivoj Presl. They first catalogued me in 1805.

Native to Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Borneo, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Congo, East Himalaya, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Maluku, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Pakistan, Philippines, Queensland, Rwanda, Réunion, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Transcaucasus, Uganda, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.