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Lagenaria siceraria

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Lagenaria siceraria. See image source here.

#541 They called me Lagenaria siceraria, also known as Trochomeria rehmannii. I pay homage to the male botanist Anton Rehmann. They first catalogued me in 1930.

Native to Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zaïre.

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Digitaria longiflora

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Digitaria longiflora. See image source here.

#536 They called me Digitaria longiflora, also known as Digitaria corradii, Digitaria preslii, Digitaria friesii, Paspalum preslii, and Digitaria roxburghii. I pay homage to the male botanists Corrad (I couldn’t find his records), Elias Magnus Fries, William Roxburgh, and Jan Svatopluk Presl, or Carl Borivoj Presl. They first catalogued me in 1805.

Native to Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Borneo, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Congo, East Himalaya, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Maluku, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Pakistan, Philippines, Queensland, Rwanda, Réunion, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Transcaucasus, Uganda, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.

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Aristida adscensionis

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#470 They called me Aristida adscensionis, also known as Aristida thonningii, Chaetaria forskalii, Arthratherum adscensionis subsp. heymannii, Aristida heymannii, and Aristida ehrenbergii. I pay homage to the male botanists Thonning (I couldn’t find his records), Forskal (I couldn’t find his records), Heymann (I couldn’t find his records), and Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Afghanistan, Algeria, Andaman Is., Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Aruba, Ascension, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, California, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Chad, Chile Central, Chile North, China North-Central, China South-Central, Colombia, Colorado, Cuba, Cyprus, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Aegean Is., East Himalaya, Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Galápagos, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Gulf of Guinea Is., Gulf States, Haiti, Honduras, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kansas, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kirgizstan, Kriti, KwaZulu-Natal, Lebanon-Syria, Leeward Is., Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Is., Libya, Madeira, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nebraska, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, Nevada, New Guinea, New Mexico, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, North Caucasus, Northern Provinces, Oklahoma, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Qinghai, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sicilia, Sinai, Socotra, Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Texas, Thailand, Togo, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turks-Caicos Is., Uganda, Utah, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Sahara, Windward Is., Xinjiang, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.