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Heliconia indica

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Heliconia indica. See image source here.

#482 They called me Heliconia indica, also known as Heliconia seemannii. I pay homage to the male botanist Berthold Carl Seemann, or Wilhelm Eduard Gottfried Seemann. They first catalogued me in 1785.

Native to Bismarck Archipelago, Maluku, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Santa Cruz Is., Solomon Is., and Vanuatu.

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Garuga floribunda

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Garuga floribunda. See image source here.

#476 They called me Garuga floribunda, also known as Garuga clarkii. I pay homage to the male botanist James Curtis Clark, Howard Walton Clark, or William Andrew Clark. They first catalogued me in 1834.

Native to Borneo, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, New Guinea, Philippines, Queensland, Samoa, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Thailand, Tonga, Vanuatu, and Western Australia.

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Pothos scandens

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Pothos scandens. See image source here.

#467 They called me Pothos scandens, also known as Pothos horsfieldii. I pay homage to the male botanist Thomas Horsfield. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, Comoros, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Madagascar, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Tibet, and Vietnam.