Tag: Mozambique

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Ensete ventricosum

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Ensete ventricosum. See image source here.

#629 They called me Ensete ventricosum, also known as Musa laurentii, Musa holstii, Ensete buchananii, Musa schweinfurthii, Musa buchananii, Ensete holstii, Ensete schweinfurthii, Ensete laurentii, and Ensete ventricosum var. montbeliardii. I pay homage to the male botanists Laurent (I couldn’t find his records), Holst (I couldn’t find his records), Georg August Schweinfurth, Montbeliard (I couldn’t find his records), and John Buchanan, or Alex M. Buchanan. They first catalogued me in 1948.

Native to Angola, Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.

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Lumnitzera racemosa

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Lumnitzera racemosa. See image source here.

#624 They called me Lumnitzera racemosa, also known as Pokornya ettingshausenii. I pay homage to the male botanist Constantin von Ettingshausen. They first catalogued me in 1803.

Native to Aldabra, Andaman Is., Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, Chagos Archipelago, China Southeast, Hainan, India, Jawa, Kenya, Korea, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesser Sunda Is., Madagascar, Malaya, Maldives, Maluku, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Seychelles, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Bauhinia galpinii

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Bauhinia galpinii. See image source here.

#618 They called me Bauhinia galpinii, also known as Perlebia galpinii. I pay homage to the male botanist Ernest Edward Galpin. They first catalogued me in 1891.

Native to Angola, KwaZulu-Natal, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe.