Tag: New Caledonia

Categories
Plants

Bulbophyllum apodum

This plant's image
Bulbophyllum apodum. See image source here.

#524 They called me Bulbophyllum apodum, also known as Bulbophyllum vidalii. I pay homage to the male botanist Gustave Prosper Vidal. They first catalogued me in 1890.

Native to Assam, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Fiji, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vanuatu, Vietnam, and Wallis-Futuna Is..

Categories
Plants

Leptaspis banksii

This plant's image
Leptaspis banksii. See image source here.

#497 They called me Leptaspis banksii, also known as Pharus banksii, and Leptaspis cumingii. I pay homage to the male botanists Hugh Cuming, and Joseph Banks, or Harlan Parker Banks. They first catalogued me in 1810.

Native to Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Philippines, Queensland, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Taiwan, and Thailand.

Categories
Plants

Musa troglodytarum

This plant's image
Musa troglodytarum. See image source here.

#490 They called me Musa troglodytarum, also known as Musa seemannii. I pay homage to the male botanist Berthold Carl Seemann, or Wilhelm Eduard Gottfried Seemann. They first catalogued me in 1763.

Native to New Caledonia, and New Guinea.