Tag: Southwest Caribbean

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Lasiacis divaricata

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Lasiacis divaricata. See image source here.

#455 They called me Lasiacis divaricata, also known as Lasiacis harrisii, and Panicum chauvinii. I pay homage to the male botanists Chauvin (I couldn’t find his records), and Warwick Harris, or Wayne K. Harris. They first catalogued me in 1910.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..

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Coccoloba diversifolia

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Coccoloba diversifolia. See image source here.

#386 They called me Coccoloba diversifolia, also known as Uvifera curtisii, and Coccoloba curtisii. I pay homage to the male botanist Charles Curtis, Carlton Clarence Curtis, Charles Henry Curtis, William Curtis, or Moses Ashley Curtis. They first catalogued me in 1760.

Native to Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Florida, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Myrcianthes fragrans

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#374 They called me Myrcianthes fragrans, also known as Eugenia simpsonii, Myrcianthes fragrans var. simpsonii, Anamomis simpsonii, Myrcianthes simpsonii, Myrcianthes dugandii, Myrcianthes fragrans subsp. simpsonii, Eugenia dugandii, and Eugenia steyermarkii. I pay homage to the male botanists George Simpson, Dugand (I couldn’t find his records), and Julian Alfred Steyermark. They first catalogued me in 1963.

Native to Bahamas, Belize, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..