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Diospyros canaliculata

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Diospyros canaliculata. See image source here.

#562 They called me Diospyros canaliculata, also known as Diospyros treubii, and Diospyros bequaertii. I pay homage to the male botanists Treub (I couldn’t find his records), and Joseph Charles Bequaert. They first catalogued me in 1926.

Native to Angola, Cabinda, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, and Zaïre.

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Garcinia mannii

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Garcinia mannii. See image source here.

#551 They called me Garcinia mannii. I pay homage to the male botanist Gustav Mann. They first catalogued me in 1868.

Native to Cabinda, Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gulf of Guinea Is., and Nigeria.

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Lagenaria siceraria

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Lagenaria siceraria. See image source here.

#541 They called me Lagenaria siceraria, also known as Trochomeria rehmannii. I pay homage to the male botanist Anton Rehmann. They first catalogued me in 1930.

Native to Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zaïre.