Tag: Solomon Is.

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Heliconia indica

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Heliconia indica. See image source here.

#482 They called me Heliconia indica, also known as Heliconia seemannii. I pay homage to the male botanist Berthold Carl Seemann, or Wilhelm Eduard Gottfried Seemann. They first catalogued me in 1785.

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

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Garuga floribunda

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Garuga floribunda. See image source here.

#476 They called me Garuga floribunda, also known as Garuga clarkii. I pay homage to the male botanist James Curtis Clark, Howard Walton Clark, or William Andrew Clark. They first catalogued me in 1834.

Native to Borneo, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, New Guinea, Philippines, Queensland, Samoa, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Thailand, Tonga, Vanuatu, and Western Australia.

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Aglaia sapindina

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Aglaia sapindina. See image source here.

#453 They called me Aglaia sapindina, also known as Aglaia miquelii, Aglaia ermischii, Aglaia rudolfii, Aglaia gjellerupii, and Aglaia hartmannii. I pay homage to the male botanists Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel, Ermisch (I couldn’t find his records), Rudolf (I couldn’t find his records), Gjellerup (I couldn’t find his records), and Hartmann (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1896.

Native to Bismarck Archipelago, Maluku, New Guinea, Northern Territory, Queensland, and Solomon Is..