Tag: Maluku

Categories
Plants

Corypha utan

This plant's image
Corypha utan. See image source here.

#808 They called me Corypha utan, also known as Livistona vidalii. I pay homage to the male botanist Gustave Prosper Vidal. They first catalogued me in 1786.

Native to Andaman Is., Assam, Borneo, Cambodia, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Northern Territory, Philippines, Queensland, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Categories
Plants

Viburnum sambucinum

This plant's image
Viburnum sambucinum. See image source here.

#806 They called me Viburnum sambucinum, also known as Viburnum forbesii. I pay homage to the male botanist Charles Noyes Forbes, Edward Forbes, or Henry Ogg Forbes. They first catalogued me in 1826.

Native to Borneo, Cambodia, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Categories
Plants

Crotalaria quinquefolia

This plant's image
Crotalaria quinquefolia. See image source here.

#794 They called me Crotalaria quinquefolia, also known as Crotalaria ekmanii, and Crotalaria hislopii. I pay homage to the male botanists Erik Leonard Ekman, and Michael Clyde Hislop. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Northern Territory, Philippines, Queensland, Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, and Western Australia.