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Kibara coriacea

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Kibara coriacea. See image source here.

#621 They called me Kibara coriacea, also known as Sciadicarpus brongniartii, Kibara vidalii, and Kibara warburgii. I pay homage to the male botanists Gustave Prosper Vidal, Adolphe Theodore Brongniart, Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, or Alexandre Brongniart, and E. F. Warburg, Edmund Frederic Warburg, or Otto Warburg. They first catalogued me in 1855.

Native to Borneo, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, and Thailand.

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Aglaonema simplex

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#616 They called me Aglaonema simplex, also known as Aglaonema nieuwenhuisii, and Aglaonema simplex f. nieuwenhuisii. I pay homage to the male botanist A.W. Nieuwenhuis. They first catalogued me in 1837.

Native to Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Cyperus difformis

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#612 They called me Cyperus difformis, also known as Cyperus goeringii. I pay homage to the male botanist Philip Friedrich Wilhelm Goering. They first catalogued me in 1756.

Native to Afghanistan, Albania, Andaman Is., Angola, Azores, Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Caprivi Strip, Central African Repu, Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Comoros, Congo, Cook Is., Corse, East Himalaya, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, France, Free State, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Greece, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Kazakhstan, Kazan-retto, Kenya, Kirgizstan, Korea, Kriti, KwaZulu-Natal, Lebanon-Syria, Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Manchuria, Marianas, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, Norfolk Is., Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Ogasawara-shoto, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Portugal, Primorye, Queensland, Romania, Rwanda, Réunion, Senegal, Seychelles, Sicilia, Sierra Leone, Socotra, Somalia, South Australia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tokelau-Manihiki, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Victoria, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Xinjiang, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.