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Cyperus dubius

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Cyperus dubius. See image source here.

#871 They called me Cyperus dubius, also known as Cyperus merrillii, Mariscus merrillii, and Mariscus kraussii. I pay homage to the male botanists Elmer Drew Merrill, and Christian Ferdinand Friedrich von Krauss, or Johan Carl Krauss. They first catalogued me in 1773.

Native to Aldabra, Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Borneo, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Repu, Chagos Archipelago, Comoros, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Laos, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maldives, Mauritius, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel I, Namibia, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Philippines, Rodrigues, Rwanda, Réunion, Seychelles, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sumatera, Swaziland, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.

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Aglaia korthalsii

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Aglaia korthalsii. See image source here.

#864 They called me Aglaia korthalsii. I pay homage to the male botanist Pieter Willem Korthals. They first catalogued me in 1868.

Native to Andaman Is., Assam, Borneo, East Himalaya, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Cryptocarya laevigata

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Cryptocarya laevigata. See image source here.

#857 They called me Cryptocarya laevigata, also known as Cryptocarya merrillii. I pay homage to the male botanist Elmer Drew Merrill. They first catalogued me in 1826.

Native to Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Jawa, Malaya, New Guinea, New South Wales, Philippines, Queensland, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, and Sumatera.