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Desmodium scorpiurus

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Desmodium scorpiurus. See image source here.

#956 They called me Desmodium scorpiurus, also known as Meibomia martensii. I pay homage to the male botanist Georg Matthias von Martens, or Martin Martens. They first catalogued me in 1825.

Native to Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, Caroline Is., Fiji, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Madagascar, Malaya, Maluku, Marianas, Mauritius, Mozambique, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Niue, Philippines, Queensland, Réunion, Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tonga, Vanuatu, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe.

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Cyrtosperma johnstonii

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Cyrtosperma johnstonii. See image source here.

#927 They called me Cyrtosperma johnstonii, also known as Alocasia johnstonii. I pay homage to the male botanist Henry Halcro Johnston, Henry “Harry” Hamilton Johnston, Ivan Murray Johnston, or Marshall Conring Johnston. They first catalogued me in 1882.

Native to Solomon Is..

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Pueraria pulcherrima

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Pueraria pulcherrima. See image source here.

#913 They called me Pueraria pulcherrima, also known as Glycine warburgii, and Pueraria warburgii. I pay homage to the male botanist E. F. Warburg, Edmund Frederic Warburg, or Otto Warburg. They first catalogued me in 1914.

Native to Bismarck Archipelago, Maluku, New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Is., and Sulawesi.