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Oxalis latifolia

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Oxalis latifolia. See image source here.

#863 They called me Oxalis latifolia, also known as Oxalis eggersii, Oxalis buchtienii, and Ionoxalis buchtienii. I pay homage to the male botanists Henrik Franz Alexander von Eggers, and Buchtien (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1822.

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Corchorus orinocensis

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Corchorus orinocensis. See image source here.

#860 They called me Corchorus orinocensis, also known as Corchorus argutus var. blanchetii, and Corchorus argutus var. benthamii. I pay homage to the male botanists Blanchet (I couldn’t find his records), and George Bentham. They first catalogued me in 1823.

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Ichnanthus pallens

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Ichnanthus pallens. See image source here.

#855 They called me Ichnanthus pallens, also known as Panicum pallens var. swartzii, Ichnanthus hitchcockii, and Panicum schlechtendahlii. I pay homage to the male botanists Olof Swartz, Schlechtendahl (I couldn’t find his records), and Charles Leo Hitchcock, Edward Hitchcock, or Albert Spear Hitchcock. They first catalogued me in 1861.