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Diplazium esculentum

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Diplazium esculentum. See image source here.

#503 They called me Diplazium esculentum, also known as Asplenium moritzii, and Callipteris wallichii. I pay homage to the male botanists Johann Wilhelm Karl Moritz, and George Charles Wallich, or Nathaniel Wallich. They first catalogued me in 1803.

Native to Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Fiji, Hainan, India, Japan, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Pakistan, Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vanuatu, Vietnam, and West Himalaya.

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Grammitis contigua

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Grammitis contigua. See image source here.

#487 They called me Grammitis contigua, also known as Prosaptia preslii, Grammitis preslii, Davallia preslii, Prosaptia rosenstockii, and Grammitis rosenstockii. I pay homage to the male botanists Rosenstock (I couldn’t find his records), and Jan Svatopluk Presl, or Carl Borivoj Presl. They first catalogued me in 2018.

Native to Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, China South-Central, China Southeast, Fiji, Hainan, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Marquesas, Nansei-shoto, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Philippines, Queensland, Samoa, Society Is., Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vanuatu.

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Urena lobata

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Urena lobata. See image source here.

#454 They called me Urena lobata, also known as Urena swartzii, and Urena lobata f. swartzii. I pay homage to the male botanist Olof Swartz. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Repu, Central American Pac, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ethiopia, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, India, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Kenya, Laos, Leeward Is., Liberia, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Venezuela, Vietnam, Windward Is., Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.