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Heliotropium steudneri

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Heliotropium steudneri. See image source here.

#758 They called me Heliotropium steudneri, also known as Heliotropium nelsonii, Heliotropium rogersii, Heliotropium gorinii, Heliotropium eduardii, and Heliotropium chiatellinii. I pay homage to the male botanists Richard Sanders Rogers, Gorin (I couldn’t find his records), Eduard (I couldn’t find his records), Chiatellin (I couldn’t find his records), and Cirilo Nelson, Carl Z. Nelson, Ernest Charles Nelson, Elias Emanuel Nelson, Erich Nelson, Edward William Nelson, Ira Schreiber Nelson, David Nelson, or Aven Nelson. They first catalogued me in 1875.

Native to Angola, Botswana, Cape Provinces, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Mozambique, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Oman, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Yemen, and Zimbabwe.

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Oxalis pes-caprae

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Oxalis pes-caprae. See image source here.

#742 They called me Oxalis pes-caprae, also known as Oxalis ehrenbergii, and Acetosella ehrenbergii. I pay homage to the male botanist Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Cape Provinces, and Namibia.

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Pistia stratiotes

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Pistia stratiotes. See image source here.

#718 They called me Pistia stratiotes, also known as Pistia cumingii, and Pistia turpinii. I pay homage to the male botanists Hugh Cuming, and Turpin (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Afghanistan, Andaman Is., Angola, Argentina Northeast, Assam, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cabinda, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Caprivi Strip, Central African Repu, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Florida, Free State, French Guiana, Gabon, Galápagos, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, India, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Laos, Leeward Is., Lesotho, Liberia, Louisiana, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maldives, Mali, Maluku, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Guinea, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Pakistan, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Texas, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Uruguay, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Windward Is., Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.