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Digitaria horizontalis

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#655 They called me Digitaria horizontalis, also known as Panicum hamiltonii. I pay homage to the male botanist William Hamilton, Arthur Andrew Hamilton, Alexander Greenlaw Hamilton, or Arthur Hamilton. They first catalogued me in 1809.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bahamas, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cayman Is., Central African Repu, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Galápagos, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Suriname, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is., and Zaïre.

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Ipomoea cairica

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#633 They called me Ipomoea cairica, also known as Ipomoea bouvetii, Batatas cavanillesii, Ipomoea jacquinii, Convolvulus cavanillesii, and Ipomoea cavanillesii. I pay homage to the male botanists Bouvet (I couldn’t find his records), Antonio José Cavanilles, and Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, or Joseph Franz von Jacquin. They first catalogued me in 1826.

Native to Angola, Bangladesh, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, China South-Central, China Southeast, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Ogasawara-shoto, Palestine, Rodrigues, Rwanda, Réunion, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.

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Cyperus difformis

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Cyperus difformis. See image source here.

#612 They called me Cyperus difformis, also known as Cyperus goeringii. I pay homage to the male botanist Philip Friedrich Wilhelm Goering. They first catalogued me in 1756.

Native to Afghanistan, Albania, Andaman Is., Angola, Azores, Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Caprivi Strip, Central African Repu, Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Comoros, Congo, Cook Is., Corse, East Himalaya, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, France, Free State, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Greece, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Kazakhstan, Kazan-retto, Kenya, Kirgizstan, Korea, Kriti, KwaZulu-Natal, Lebanon-Syria, Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Manchuria, Marianas, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, Norfolk Is., Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Ogasawara-shoto, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Portugal, Primorye, Queensland, Romania, Rwanda, Réunion, Senegal, Seychelles, Sicilia, Sierra Leone, Socotra, Somalia, South Australia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tokelau-Manihiki, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Victoria, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Xinjiang, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.