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Cyperus sphacelatus

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Cyperus sphacelatus. See image source here.

#896 They called me Cyperus sphacelatus, also known as Cyperus balbisii, and Cyperus duchaisingii. I pay homage to the male botanists Giovanni Battista Balbis, and Duchaising (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1773.

Native to Angola, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Central American Pac, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, French Guiana, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Suriname, Tanzania, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Venezuela, Windward Is., Zambia, and Zaïre.

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Spathandra blakeoides

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Spathandra blakeoides. See image source here.

#885 They called me Spathandra blakeoides, also known as Memecylon mannii, Memecylon tessmannii, Memecylon mildbraedii, and Memecylon millenii. I pay homage to the male botanists Gustav Mann, Tessmann (I couldn’t find his records), Johannes Mildbraed, and Millen (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1978.

Native to Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Zaïre.

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Thecacoris stenopetala

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Thecacoris stenopetala. See image source here.

#870 They called me Thecacoris stenopetala, also known as Thecacoris batesii. I pay homage to the male botanist John Mallory Bates. They first catalogued me in 1866.

Native to Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Liberia, and Sierra Leone.