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Oplismenus hirtellus

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Oplismenus hirtellus. See image source here.

#98 They called me Oplismenus hirtellus, also known as Panicum balfourii, and Oplismenus borhidii. I pay homage to the male botanists Borhid (I couldn’t find his records), and John Hutton Balfour, or Isaac Bayley Balfour. They first catalogued me in 1812.

Native to Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bahamas, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caroline Is., Cayman Is., Central African Repu, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Congo, Cook Is., Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Galápagos, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jawa, Kenya, Kermadec Is., Korea, KwaZulu-Natal, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Madeira, Malawi, Mali, Maluku, Marianas, Marquesas, Mauritius, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nansei-shoto, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Is., Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Pitcairn Is., Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rodrigues, Rwanda, Réunion, Samoa, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Society Is., Solomon Is., Sudan, Sulawesi, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad-Tobago, Tubuai Is., Uganda, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Victoria, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Is., Western Australia, Windward Is., Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.

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Zehneria mucronata

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Zehneria mucronata. See image source here.

#86 They called me Zehneria mucronata, also known as Bryonia johnstonii. I pay homage to the male botanist Henry Halcro Johnston, Henry “Harry” Hamilton Johnston, Ivan Murray Johnston, or Marshall Conring Johnston. They first catalogued me in 1856.

Native to Bismarck Archipelago, Christmas I., Fiji, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Maluku, New Guinea, Niue, Northern Territory, Philippines, Queensland, Samoa, Society Is., Solomon Is., South Australia, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Tonga, and Western Australia.

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Dracaena angustifolia

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Dracaena angustifolia. See image source here.

#85 They called me Dracaena angustifolia, also known as Cordyline rumphii, Cordyline cheesemanii, Dracaena × bartetii, Dracaena gibsonii, Cordyline dennisonii, Cordyline baptistii, Dracaena chelsonii, Cordyline bartelii, Cordyline macarthurii, Dracaena flemingii, Cordyline duffii, Calodracon jacquinii, Cordyline thomsonii, Cordyline chelsonii, Cordyline hendersonii, Cordyline laingii, Cordyline jacquinii, Cordyline youngii, Dracaena hendersonii, and Cordyline williamsii. I pay homage to the male botanists Rumph (I couldn’t find his records), Thomas Frederic Cheeseman, Bartet (I couldn’t find his records), Dennison (I couldn’t find his records), Baptist (I couldn’t find his records), Chelson (I couldn’t find his records), Jim A. Bartel, Macarthur (I couldn’t find his records), Fleming (I couldn’t find his records), Duff (I couldn’t find his records), Laing (I couldn’t find his records), Young (I couldn’t find his records), Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, or Joseph Franz von Jacquin, George Thomson, or Charles Wyville Thomson, Neil Gibson, Alexander Gibson, or William Hamilton Gibson, Benjamin Samuel Williams, Ion James Muirhead Williams, Mark L. Williams, or Samuel Williams, and George Henderson, Edward George Henderson, Murray Ross Henderson, Norlan C. Henderson, Andrew Augustus Henderson, Archibald Henderson, or Andrew Henderson. They first catalogued me in 1814.

Native to Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Hainan, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Northern Territory, Philippines, Queensland, Solomon Is., Thailand, and Vietnam.