Tag: Queensland

Categories
Plants

Hymenophyllum holochilum

This plant's image
Hymenophyllum holochilum. See image source here.

#256 They called me Hymenophyllum holochilum, also known as Meringium merrillii, Hymenophyllum merrillii, Hymenophyllum boschii, and Hymenophyllum smithii. I pay homage to the male botanists Elmer Drew Merrill, Roelof Benjamin van den Bosch, and James Edward Smith, Johannes Jacobus Smith, Winifred Smith, Christo Albertyn Smith, Charles Piper Smith, Gerard Edwards Smith, Gilbert Morgan Smith, Henry George Smith, Hamilton Lanphere Smith, Albert Charles Smith, Alan Reid Smith, or William Wright Smith. They first catalogued me in 1905.

Native to Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Caroline Is., Fiji, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, New Caledonia, Philippines, Queensland, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vanuatu.

Categories
Plants

Strychnos minor

This plant's image
Strychnos minor. See image source here.

#250 They called me Strychnos minor, also known as Strychnos thonningii, Strychnos merrillii, Strychnos forbesii, and Strychnos kerstingii. I pay homage to the male botanists Thonning (I couldn’t find his records), Elmer Drew Merrill, Kersting (I couldn’t find his records), and Charles Noyes Forbes, Edward Forbes, or Henry Ogg Forbes. They first catalogued me in 1818.

Native to Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, India, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Queensland, Santa Cruz Is., Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Categories
Plants

Dioscorea pentaphylla

This plant's image
Dioscorea pentaphylla. See image source here.

#245 They called me Dioscorea pentaphylla, also known as Dioscorea jacquemontii. I pay homage to the male botanist Victor Jacquemont. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, Caroline Is., China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maldives, Maluku, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Queensland, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam, and West Himalaya.