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Coursetia caribaea

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Coursetia caribaea. See image source here.

#869 They called me Coursetia caribaea, also known as Brittonamra caribaea var. edwardsii, Benthamantha edwardsii, Cracca edwardsii, Cracca caribaea var. edwardsii, Coursetia greenmanii, Cracca greenmanii, and Benthamantha greenmanii. I pay homage to the male botanists Edwards (I couldn’t find his records), and Jesse More Greenman. They first catalogued me in 1987.

Native to Arizona, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..

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Sporobolus pyramidatus

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Sporobolus pyramidatus. See image source here.

#866 They called me Sporobolus pyramidatus, also known as Vilfa richardii. I pay homage to the male botanist Louis Claude Richard, or Achille Richard. They first catalogued me in 1936.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Arkansas, Aruba, Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Colorado, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Galápagos, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Illinois, Jamaica, Kansas, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Maryland, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Missouri, Nebraska, Netherlands Antilles, New Mexico, Nicaragua, Oklahoma, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Uruguay, Utah, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..

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Commicarpus scandens

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Commicarpus scandens. See image source here.

#865 They called me Commicarpus scandens, also known as Boerhavia grahamii. I pay homage to the male botanist Robert Graham. They first catalogued me in 1909.

Native to Arizona, Aruba, Bahamas, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, New Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Texas, Turks-Caicos Is., and Venezuela.