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Desmodium scorpiurus

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#956 They called me Desmodium scorpiurus, also known as Meibomia martensii. I pay homage to the male botanist Georg Matthias von Martens, or Martin Martens. They first catalogued me in 1825.

Native to Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, Caroline Is., Fiji, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Madagascar, Malaya, Maluku, Marianas, Mauritius, Mozambique, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Niue, Philippines, Queensland, Réunion, Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tonga, Vanuatu, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe.

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Cyperus dubius

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#871 They called me Cyperus dubius, also known as Cyperus merrillii, Mariscus merrillii, and Mariscus kraussii. I pay homage to the male botanists Elmer Drew Merrill, and Christian Ferdinand Friedrich von Krauss, or Johan Carl Krauss. They first catalogued me in 1773.

Native to Aldabra, Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Borneo, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Repu, Chagos Archipelago, Comoros, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Laos, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maldives, Mauritius, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel I, Namibia, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Philippines, Rodrigues, Rwanda, Réunion, Seychelles, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sumatera, Swaziland, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.

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Fimbristylis complanata

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#830 They called me Fimbristylis complanata, also known as Isolepis willdenowii, and Fimbristylis bequaertii. I pay homage to the male botanists Joseph Charles Bequaert, and Carl Ludwig Willdenow, or Carl Ludwig von Willdenow. They first catalogued me in 1827.

Native to Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bangladesh, Belize, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cape Provinces, Caroline Is., China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, French Guiana, Gabon, Guatemala, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Kenya, Korea, KwaZulu-Natal, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Malawi, Malaya, Maluku, Marianas, Mauritius, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Pakistan, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rwanda, Réunion, Seychelles, Socotra, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Tonga, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Uruguay, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Is., Windward Is., Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.