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Capsicum annuum

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#121 They called me Capsicum annuum, also known as Capsicum tournefortii, and Capsicum hamiltonii. I pay homage to the male botanists Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, and William Hamilton, Arthur Andrew Hamilton, Alexander Greenlaw Hamilton, or Arthur Hamilton. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Guatemala, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, and Mexico Southwest.

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Ipomoea violacea

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#104 They called me Ipomoea violacea, also known as Calonyction jacquinii. I pay homage to the male botanist Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, or Joseph Franz von Jacquin. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Aldabra, Andaman Is., Aruba, Assam, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Cambodia, Caroline Is., Cayman Is., China Southeast, Christmas I., Cocos (Keeling) Is., Colombia, Comoros, Cook Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic, Fiji, Florida, French Guiana, Ghana, Gilbert Is., Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Leeward Is., Line Is., Madagascar, Malaya, Maluku, Marianas, Marquesas, Marshall Is., Mauritius, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nauru, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Niue, Northern Territory, Ogasawara-shoto, Panamá, Philippines, Phoenix Is., Pitcairn Is., Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rodrigues, Seychelles, Society Is., Solomon Is., South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Taiwan, Tanzania, Texas, Thailand, Tokelau-Manihiki, Tonga, Trinidad-Tobago, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Tuvalu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Wake I., Wallis-Futuna Is., Western Australia, and Windward Is..

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Oplismenus hirtellus

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#98 They called me Oplismenus hirtellus, also known as Panicum balfourii, and Oplismenus borhidii. I pay homage to the male botanists Borhid (I couldn’t find his records), and John Hutton Balfour, or Isaac Bayley Balfour. They first catalogued me in 1812.

Native to Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bahamas, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caroline Is., Cayman Is., Central African Repu, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Congo, Cook Is., Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Galápagos, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jawa, Kenya, Kermadec Is., Korea, KwaZulu-Natal, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Madeira, Malawi, Mali, Maluku, Marianas, Marquesas, Mauritius, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nansei-shoto, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Is., Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Pitcairn Is., Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rodrigues, Rwanda, Réunion, Samoa, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Society Is., Solomon Is., Sudan, Sulawesi, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad-Tobago, Tubuai Is., Uganda, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Victoria, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Is., Western Australia, Windward Is., Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.