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Sterculia shillinglawii

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Sterculia shillinglawii. See image source here.

#158 They called me Sterculia shillinglawii, also known as Sterculia conwentzii. I pay homage to the male botanists Shillinglaw (I couldn’t find his records), and Hugo Conwentz. They first catalogued me in 1887.

Native to Bismarck Archipelago, Maluku, New Guinea, Queensland, Santa Cruz Is., and Solomon Is..

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Fimbristylis cymosa

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Fimbristylis cymosa. See image source here.

#155 They called me Fimbristylis cymosa, also known as Fimbristylis warburgii, and Fimbristylis sintenisii. I pay homage to the male botanists Sintenis (I couldn’t find his records), and E. F. Warburg, Edmund Frederic Warburg, or Otto Warburg. They first catalogued me in 1810.

Native to Aldabra, Andaman Is., Aruba, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Cape Provinces, Caroline Is., Cayman Is., Chagos Archipelago, China Southeast, Christmas I., Cocos (Keeling) Is., Colombia, Congo, Cook Is., Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Ghana, Gilbert Is., Guatemala, Gulf of Guinea Is., Gulf States, Guyana, Hainan, Hawaii, Honduras, Howland-Baker Is., India, Iran, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Kenya, Korea, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malaya, Maldives, Maluku, Marianas, Marshall Is., Mauritius, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel I, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Northern Territory, Oman, Pakistan, Panamá, Philippines, Phoenix Is., Puerto Rico, Queensland, Réunion, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Society Is., Socotra, Solomon Is., Somalia, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Taiwan, Tanzania, Texas, Thailand, Togo, Tokelau-Manihiki, Tonga, Trinidad-Tobago, Tuamotu, Turks-Caicos Is., Tuvalu, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam, Wake I., Wallis-Futuna Is., Western Australia, Windward Is., Yemen, Zambia, and Zaïre.

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Dicranopteris linearis

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#150 They called me Dicranopteris linearis, also known as Gleichenia hermannii, Dicranopteris hermannii, Mertensia lessonii, Gleichenia klotzschii, Mertensia klotzschii, Dicranopteris klotzschii, and Mertensia hermannii. I pay homage to the male botanists Paul Hermann, Pierre Adolphe Lesson, and Johann Friedrich Klotzsch. They first catalogued me in 1907.

Native to Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Caroline Is., China South-Central, China Southeast, Comoros, Cook Is., East Himalaya, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, Hawaii, India, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Maluku, Marianas, Marquesas, Mauritius, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, New Zealand North, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Philippines, Pitcairn Is., Queensland, Rwanda, Réunion, Samoa, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Society Is., Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tonga, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Uganda, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Is., Western Australia, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.