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Aglaia korthalsii

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Aglaia korthalsii. See image source here.

#864 They called me Aglaia korthalsii. I pay homage to the male botanist Pieter Willem Korthals. They first catalogued me in 1868.

Native to Andaman Is., Assam, Borneo, East Himalaya, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Cryptocarya laevigata

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Cryptocarya laevigata. See image source here.

#857 They called me Cryptocarya laevigata, also known as Cryptocarya merrillii. I pay homage to the male botanist Elmer Drew Merrill. They first catalogued me in 1826.

Native to Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Jawa, Malaya, New Guinea, New South Wales, Philippines, Queensland, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, and Sumatera.

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Lasianthus attenuatus

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Lasianthus attenuatus. See image source here.

#854 They called me Lasianthus attenuatus, also known as Lasianthus copelandii, Lasianthus thorelii, Lasianthus wallichii, and Mephitidia wallichii. I pay homage to the male botanists Thorel (I couldn’t find his records), Edwin Bingham Copeland, or Herbert Faulkner Copeland, and George Charles Wallich, or Nathaniel Wallich. They first catalogued me in 1823.

Native to Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, Japan, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.