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Urena lobata

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Urena lobata. See image source here.

#454 They called me Urena lobata, also known as Urena swartzii, and Urena lobata f. swartzii. I pay homage to the male botanist Olof Swartz. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Repu, Central American Pac, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ethiopia, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, India, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Kenya, Laos, Leeward Is., Liberia, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Venezuela, Vietnam, Windward Is., Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.

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Jasminum elongatum

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Jasminum elongatum. See image source here.

#437 They called me Jasminum elongatum, also known as Jasminum horsfieldii, Jasminum evansii, Jasminum aemulum var. brassii, Jasminum esquirolii, and Jasminum forstenii. I pay homage to the male botanists Thomas Horsfield, Brass (I couldn’t find his records), Esquirol (I couldn’t find his records), Forsten (I couldn’t find his records), and Alexander William Evans, Arthur Humble Evans, or William Edgar Evans. They first catalogued me in 1797.

Native to Andaman Is., Assam, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Northern Territory, Philippines, Queensland, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, and Western Australia.

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Terminalia citrina

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Terminalia citrina. See image source here.

#435 They called me Terminalia citrina, also known as Terminalia curtisii, Terminalia manii, and Terminalia teysmannii. I pay homage to the male botanists Man (I couldn’t find his records), Teysmann (I couldn’t find his records), and Charles Curtis, Carlton Clarence Curtis, Charles Henry Curtis, William Curtis, or Moses Ashley Curtis. They first catalogued me in 1810.

Native to Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, East Himalaya, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, and Vietnam.