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Mesua ferrea

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Mesua ferrea. See image source here.

#387 They called me Mesua ferrea, also known as Mesua roxburghii. I pay homage to the male botanist William Roxburgh. They first catalogued me in 1753.

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Aristolochia acuminata

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Aristolochia acuminata. See image source here.

#378 They called me Aristolochia acuminata, also known as Aristolochia eschscholtzii. I pay homage to the male botanist Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz. They first catalogued me in 1783.

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Neyraudia arundinacea

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Neyraudia arundinacea. See image source here.

#365 They called me Neyraudia arundinacea, also known as Donax thouarii, Arundo thouarsii, Arundo boivinii, Avena koenigii, and Neyraudia thouarsii. I pay homage to the male botanists Thouar (I couldn’t find his records), Thouars (I couldn’t find his records), Koenig (I couldn’t find his records), and Joseph Robert Bernard Boivin, or Louis Hyacinthe Boivin. They first catalogued me in 1929.