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Antidesma excavatum

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Antidesma excavatum. See image source here.

#149 They called me Antidesma excavatum, also known as Antidesma katikii, Antidesma warburgii, and Antidesma hylandii. I pay homage to the male botanists Katik (I couldn’t find his records), Bernard Patrick Matthew Hyland, and E. F. Warburg, Edmund Frederic Warburg, or Otto Warburg. They first catalogued me in 1864.

Native to Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Caroline Is., Fiji, Maluku, New Guinea, Philippines, Queensland, Samoa, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, and Wallis-Futuna Is..

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Vavaea amicorum

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Vavaea amicorum. See image source here.

#147 They called me Vavaea amicorum, also known as Vavaea lamii, Vavaea ledermannii, Vavaea brassii, Vavaea kajewskii, Vavaea chalmersii, and Beilschmiedia brassii. I pay homage to the male botanists Herman Johannes Lam, Ledermann (I couldn’t find his records), Brass (I couldn’t find his records), Kajewsk (I couldn’t find his records), and Chalmers (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1843.

Native to Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Caroline Is., Fiji, Jawa, Maluku, New Guinea, Northern Territory, Philippines, Queensland, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Sumatera, Tonga, and Vanuatu.

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Coleus scutellarioides

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Coleus scutellarioides. See image source here.

#146 They called me Coleus scutellarioides, also known as Coleus saundersii, Coleus gibsonii, Coleus verschaffeltii, Coleus marshallii, Coleus gaudichaudii, Coleus dixii, and Coleus veitchii. I pay homage to the male botanists William Saunders, Verschaffelt (I couldn’t find his records), Humphry Marshall, Gaudichaud (I couldn’t find his records), Dix (I couldn’t find his records), Neil Gibson, Alexander Gibson, or William Hamilton Gibson, and Harry Veitch, John Gould Veitch, Peter Veitch, or Harry James Veitch. They first catalogued me in 1830.

Native to Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, China Southeast, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, New Guinea, Northern Territory, Philippines, Queensland, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and Western Australia.