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Spermacoce remota

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Spermacoce remota. See image source here.

#227 They called me Spermacoce remota, also known as Spermacoce chapmanii, and Spermacoce tenuior var. commersonii. I pay homage to the male botanists Commerson (I couldn’t find his records), and Alvan Wentworth Chapman, or Alexander Robert Chapman. They first catalogued me in 1792.

Native to Alabama, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Cayman Is., Central American Pac, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Suriname, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Sapindus saponaria

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Sapindus saponaria. See image source here.

#209 They called me Sapindus saponaria, also known as Sapindus thurstonii, and Sapindus turczaninowii. I pay homage to the male botanists Edgar Thurston, and Turczaninow (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1753.

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

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Tabebuia heterophylla

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Tabebuia heterophylla. See image source here.

#176 They called me Tabebuia heterophylla, also known as Tabebuia curtissii, Tabebuia lindahlii, and Tecoma eggersii. I pay homage to the male botanists Curtiss (I couldn’t find his records), Lindahl (I couldn’t find his records), and Henrik Franz Alexander von Eggers. They first catalogued me in 1915.

Native to Bahamas, Cayman Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Trinidad-Tobago, and Windward Is..