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Cryptocarya laevigata

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Cryptocarya laevigata. See image source here.

#857 They called me Cryptocarya laevigata, also known as Cryptocarya merrillii. I pay homage to the male botanist Elmer Drew Merrill. They first catalogued me in 1826.

Native to Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Jawa, Malaya, New Guinea, New South Wales, Philippines, Queensland, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, and Sumatera.

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Ichnanthus pallens

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Ichnanthus pallens. See image source here.

#855 They called me Ichnanthus pallens, also known as Panicum pallens var. swartzii, Ichnanthus hitchcockii, and Panicum schlechtendahlii. I pay homage to the male botanists Olof Swartz, Schlechtendahl (I couldn’t find his records), and Charles Leo Hitchcock, Edward Hitchcock, or Albert Spear Hitchcock. They first catalogued me in 1861.

Native to Andaman Is., Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Assam, Bangladesh, Belize, Bolivia, Borneo, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cameroon, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Jawa, Laos, Leeward Is., Liberia, Malaya, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Guinea, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad-Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam, and Windward Is..

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Lasianthus attenuatus

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Lasianthus attenuatus. See image source here.

#854 They called me Lasianthus attenuatus, also known as Lasianthus copelandii, Lasianthus thorelii, Lasianthus wallichii, and Mephitidia wallichii. I pay homage to the male botanists Thorel (I couldn’t find his records), Edwin Bingham Copeland, or Herbert Faulkner Copeland, and George Charles Wallich, or Nathaniel Wallich. They first catalogued me in 1823.

Native to Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, Japan, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.