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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.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Aruba, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Galápagos, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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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.

Native to Andaman Is., Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Assam, Bangladesh, Belize, Bolivia, Borneo, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cameroon, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Jawa, Laos, Leeward Is., Liberia, Malaya, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Guinea, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad-Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam, and Windward Is..

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Solanum tampicense

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#850 They called me Solanum tampicense, also known as Solanum houstonii, and Nycterium lambertii. I pay homage to the male botanists Houston (I couldn’t find his records), and Aylmer Bourke Lambert. They first catalogued me in 1852.

Native to Belize, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, and Venezuela.