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Piper glabrescens

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Piper glabrescens. See image source here.

#657 They called me Piper glabrescens, also known as Piper andersonii, Piper quentinii, and Piper rothschuhii. I pay homage to the male botanists Quentin (I couldn’t find his records), Rothschuh (I couldn’t find his records), and Charles Lewis Anderson, Edward Frederick Anderson, Edgar Shannon Anderson, Alexander Anderson, James Anderson, or William Anderson. They first catalogued me in 1869.

Native to Belize, Brazil North, Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Leeward Is., Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Digitaria horizontalis

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Digitaria horizontalis. See image source here.

#655 They called me Digitaria horizontalis, also known as Panicum hamiltonii. I pay homage to the male botanist William Hamilton, Arthur Andrew Hamilton, Alexander Greenlaw Hamilton, or Arthur Hamilton. They first catalogued me in 1809.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bahamas, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cayman Is., Central African Repu, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Galápagos, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Suriname, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is., and Zaïre.

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Oplismenus compositus

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#632 They called me Oplismenus compositus, also known as Oplismenus thiebautii, Pollinia jacquinii, Oplismenus liebmannii, Oplismenus junghuhnii, Orthopogon junghuhnii, and Oplismenus owatarii. I pay homage to the male botanists Thiebaut (I couldn’t find his records), Liebmann (I couldn’t find his records), Junghuhn (I couldn’t find his records), Owatar (I couldn’t find his records), and Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, or Joseph Franz von Jacquin. They first catalogued me in 1812.

Native to Alabama, Andaman Is., Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arkansas, Assam, Bangladesh, Belize, Bermuda, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Brazil South, Burundi, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Florida, Georgia, Guatemala, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Kazan-retto, Kenya, Korea, Laccadive Is., Laos, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Louisiana, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maldives, Maluku, Mauritius, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Missouri, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., North Carolina, Northern Territory, Ogasawara-shoto, Oklahoma, Oman, Pakistan, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Réunion, Seychelles, Socotra, South Carolina, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Tanzania, Texas, Thailand, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Uruguay, Vietnam, Virginia, West Himalaya, Windward Is., Yemen, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.