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Crepidium acuminatum

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Crepidium acuminatum. See image source here.

#1000 They called me Crepidium acuminatum, also known as Malaxis allanii, Malaxis wallichii, and Microstylis wallichii. I pay homage to the male botanists Harry Howard Barton Allan, and George Charles Wallich, or Nathaniel Wallich. They first catalogued me in 1995.

Native to Arizona, Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, California, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Florida, Galápagos, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, Nevada, New Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Cuphea strigulosa

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Cuphea strigulosa. See image source here.

#996 They called me Cuphea strigulosa, also known as Cuphea fiebrigii, and Cuphea strigulosa var. sinclairii. I pay homage to the male botanists Fiebrig (I couldn’t find his records), and George Sinclair, or Andrew Sinclair. They first catalogued me in 1824.

Native to Argentina Northwest, Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Texas, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Morisonia americana

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Morisonia americana. See image source here.

#994 They called me Morisonia americana, also known as Morisonia johnstonii. I pay homage to the male botanist Henry Halcro Johnston, Henry “Harry” Hamilton Johnston, Ivan Murray Johnston, or Marshall Conring Johnston. They first catalogued me in 1753.

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