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Scaevola plumieri

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Scaevola plumieri. See image source here.

#381 They called me Scaevola plumieri, also known as Scaevola thunbergii. I pay homage to the male botanist Carl Peter Thunberg. They first catalogued me in 1791.

Native to Andaman Is., Angola, Bahamas, Benin, Bermuda, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Cambodia, Cape Provinces, Cayman Is., Chagos Archipelago, Congo, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Florida, Gabon, Galápagos, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Haiti, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kazan-retto, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Leeward Is., Liberia, Louisiana, Madagascar, Malaya, Mauritius, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel I, Netherlands Antilles, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Ogasawara-shoto, Pakistan, Puerto Rico, Réunion, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Is., Somalia, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Texas, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Vietnam.

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Celosia argentea

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#368 They called me Celosia argentea, also known as Celosia huttonii, and Amaranthus huttonii. I pay homage to the male botanist William Hutton. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Benin, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zaïre.

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Fimbristylis ferruginea

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Fimbristylis ferruginea. See image source here.

#322 They called me Fimbristylis ferruginea, also known as Fimbristylis roxburghii. I pay homage to the male botanist William Roxburgh. They first catalogued me in 1805.

Native to Afghanistan, Aldabra, Algeria, Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Botswana, Burkina, Cape Provinces, Cayman Is., Chad, Congo, Cuba, Cyprus, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Aegean Is., Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Gulf States, Guyana, Haiti, India, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jawa, Kenya, Kriti, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Lebanon-Syria, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malaya, Maluku, Marquesas, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico Southeast, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Oman, Palestine, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rodrigues, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sinai, Society Is., Socotra, Somalia, South Australia, South China Sea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Transcaucasus, Trinidad-Tobago, Turkey, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam, Western Australia, Windward Is., Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.