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Commersonia bartramia

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Commersonia bartramia. See image source here.

#203 They called me Commersonia bartramia, also known as Commersonia echinata var. bancroftii. I pay homage to the male botanist Edward Nathaniel Bancroft. They first catalogued me in 1917.

Native to Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, Caroline Is., China South-Central, China Southeast, Fiji, Hainan, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, Philippines, Queensland, Samoa, Santa Cruz Is., Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vanuatu, Vietnam, and Wallis-Futuna Is..

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Nephrolepis brownii

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Nephrolepis brownii. See image source here.

#187 They called me Nephrolepis brownii, also known as Aspidium schkuhrii, and Nephrodium brownii. I pay homage to the male botanists Schkuhr (I couldn’t find his records), and Robert Brown, Clair Alan Brown, Nicholas Edward Brown, Addison Brown, Andrew Phillip Brown, or William Brown. They first catalogued me in 2005.

Native to Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Cook Is., Fiji, Hainan, India, Japan, Jawa, Kermadec Is., Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Marianas, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Philippines, Pitcairn Is., Queensland, Society Is., Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Taiwan, Thailand, Tokelau-Manihiki, Tonga, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., and Vietnam.

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Hymenophyllum pallidum

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Hymenophyllum pallidum. See image source here.

#184 They called me Hymenophyllum pallidum, also known as Trichomanes braunii, and Craspedoneuron braunii. I pay homage to the male botanist Alexander Braun, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Braun, or Alexander Karl Heinrich Braun. They first catalogued me in 2006.

Native to Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Caroline Is., Fiji, Hainan, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Marquesas, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Philippines, Queensland, Samoa, Santa Cruz Is., Society Is., Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Vanuatu, and Vietnam.