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Jatropha curcas

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#553 They called me Jatropha curcas, also known as Curcas adansonii. I pay homage to the male botanist Michel Adanson. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Chile North, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Piper reticulatum

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#520 They called me Piper reticulatum, also known as Artanthe schlechtendalii, Steffensia schlechtendalii, and Piper duchassaingii. I pay homage to the male botanists Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal, and Duchassaing (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Rhabdadenia biflora

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#518 They called me Rhabdadenia biflora, also known as Echites billbergii, Dipladenia billbergii, Echites ehrenbergii, Rhabdadenia ehrenbergii, and Echites bilbergii. I pay homage to the male botanists Gustaf Johan Billberg, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, and Bilberg (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1860.

Native to Bahamas, Belize, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Nicaragua, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Windward Is..