Tag: Nicobar Is.

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Rourea minor

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Rourea minor. See image source here.

#416 They called me Rourea minor, also known as Connarus roxburghii, Santaloides afzelii, Rourea millettii, Santalodes roxburghii, Santaloides beccarii, and Rourea afzelii. I pay homage to the male botanists William Roxburgh, Afzel (I couldn’t find his records), Millett (I couldn’t find his records), and Beccar (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1931.

Native to Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Borneo, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Repu, China South-Central, China Southeast, Congo, East Himalaya, Fiji, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kenya, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malaya, Mali, Maluku, Myanmar, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Niue, Philippines, Samoa, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Uganda, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Is., Zambia, and Zaïre.

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Cratoxylum cochinchinense

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Cratoxylum cochinchinense. See image source here.

#408 They called me Cratoxylum cochinchinense, also known as Cratoxylum wightii. I pay homage to the male botanist Robert Wight, or William Franklin Wight. They first catalogued me in 1856.

Native to Andaman Is., Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sumatera, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Leucas lavandulifolia

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Leucas lavandulifolia. See image source here.

#403 They called me Leucas lavandulifolia, also known as Leucas brownii. I pay homage to the male botanist Robert Brown, Clair Alan Brown, Nicholas Edward Brown, Addison Brown, Andrew Phillip Brown, or William Brown. They first catalogued me in 1812.

Native to Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, and Thailand.