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Luffa acutangula

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Luffa acutangula. See image source here.

#942 They called me Luffa acutangula, also known as Luffa forskalii, and Luffa kleinii. I pay homage to the male botanists Forskal (I couldn’t find his records), and Jacob Theodor Klein. They first catalogued me in 1832.

Native to Argentina South, Bolivia, Borneo, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Cape Provinces, Chile Central, Chile South, Colombia, Crozet Is., Free State, Kerguelen, KwaZulu-Natal, Macquarie Is., Madagascar, Marion-Prince Edward, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Peru, Prince Edward I., Queensland, Rwanda, Réunion, Tanzania, Tasmania, Tristan da Cunha, Uganda, Victoria, and Zaïre.

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Koordersiochloa longiarista

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Koordersiochloa longiarista. See image source here.

#923 They called me Koordersiochloa longiarista, also known as Pseudostreptogyne richardii. I pay homage to the male botanist Louis Claude Richard, or Achille Richard. They first catalogued me in 2012.

Native to Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Ethiopia, Gulf of Guinea Is., Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesser Sunda Is., Malawi, Nigeria, Philippines, Réunion, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.

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Cyperus dubius

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Cyperus dubius. See image source here.

#871 They called me Cyperus dubius, also known as Cyperus merrillii, Mariscus merrillii, and Mariscus kraussii. I pay homage to the male botanists Elmer Drew Merrill, and Christian Ferdinand Friedrich von Krauss, or Johan Carl Krauss. They first catalogued me in 1773.

Native to Aldabra, Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Borneo, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Repu, Chagos Archipelago, Comoros, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Laos, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maldives, Mauritius, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel I, Namibia, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Philippines, Rodrigues, Rwanda, Réunion, Seychelles, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sumatera, Swaziland, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.