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Pyrrosia sphaerosticha

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Pyrrosia sphaerosticha. See image source here.

#687 They called me Pyrrosia sphaerosticha, also known as Niphobolus warburgii, and Cyclophorus warburgii. I pay homage to the male botanist E. F. Warburg, Edmund Frederic Warburg, or Otto Warburg. They first catalogued me in 1935.

Native to Lesser Sunda Is., Maluku, Philippines, and Sulawesi.

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Oplismenus burmanni

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#679 They called me Oplismenus burmanni, also known as Oplismenus baronii, Panicum schultesii, and Oplismenus preslii. I pay homage to the male botanists P. Alexis Baron, Schultes (I couldn’t find his records), and Jan Svatopluk Presl, or Carl Borivoj Presl. They first catalogued me in 1812.

Native to Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Repu, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Congo, East Himalaya, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kenya, Korea, Laccadive Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maluku, Mauritius, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, New Guinea, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Queensland, Réunion, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Socotra, Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Transcaucasus, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.

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Magnolia liliifera

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Magnolia liliifera. See image source here.

#677 They called me Magnolia liliifera, also known as Talauma forbesii, Magnolia forbesii, Talauma rumphii, and Magnolia rumphii. I pay homage to the male botanists Rumph (I couldn’t find his records), and Charles Noyes Forbes, Edward Forbes, or Henry Ogg Forbes. They first catalogued me in 1868.

Native to Andaman Is., Assam, Borneo, Cambodia, East Himalaya, Hainan, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, and Vietnam.