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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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Alstonia costata

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Alstonia costata. See image source here.

#73 They called me Alstonia costata, also known as Alstonia smithii. I pay homage to the male botanist James Edward Smith, Johannes Jacobus Smith, Winifred Smith, Christo Albertyn Smith, Charles Piper Smith, Gerard Edwards Smith, Gilbert Morgan Smith, Henry George Smith, Hamilton Lanphere Smith, Albert Charles Smith, Alan Reid Smith, or William Wright Smith. They first catalogued me in 1810.

Native to Cook Is., Fiji, Marquesas, New Caledonia, Samoa, Santa Cruz Is., Society Is., Solomon Is., Tonga, and Vanuatu.

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Premna serratifolia

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Premna serratifolia. See image source here.

#66 They called me Premna serratifolia, also known as Premna perrottetii, Premna obtusifolia var. gaudichaudii, Premna lamii, Premna gaudichaudii, and Premna woodii. I pay homage to the male botanists Perrottet (I couldn’t find his records), Gaudichaud (I couldn’t find his records), Herman Johannes Lam, and John Medley Wood, Geoffrey H.S. Wood, Howard Page Wood, Alphonso Wood, or William Wood. They first catalogued me in 1771.

Native to Aldabra, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, Caroline Is., Chagos Archipelago, China Southeast, Christmas I., Cocos (Keeling) Is., Comoros, Cook Is., Fiji, Gilbert Is., Hainan, India, Jawa, Kenya, Laccadive Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Madagascar, Malaya, Maldives, Maluku, Marianas, Marquesas, Marshall Is., Mauritius, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel I, Nansei-shoto, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Niue, Northern Territory, Philippines, Pitcairn Is., Queensland, Rodrigues, Réunion, Samoa, Santa Cruz Is., Seychelles, Society Is., Solomon Is., South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tonga, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Vietnam, and Western Australia.