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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.

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Angiopteris evecta

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Angiopteris evecta. See image source here.

#139 They called me Angiopteris evecta, also known as Angiopteris ruttenii, Angiopteris norrisii, Angiopteris cumingii, Angiopteris willinkii, Angiopteris lauterbachii, Angiopteris naumannii, Angiopteris lorentzii, and Angiopteris hellwigii. I pay homage to the male botanists Rutten (I couldn’t find his records), Norris (I couldn’t find his records), Hugh Cuming, Willink (I couldn’t find his records), Lauterbach (I couldn’t find his records), Naumann (I couldn’t find his records), Hendrik Anton Lorentz, and Hellwig (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1794.

Native to Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, Caroline Is., China Southeast, Cook Is., East Himalaya, Fiji, Japan, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Marianas, Marquesas, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, Niue, Northern Territory, Philippines, Queensland, Samoa, Society Is., Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tonga, Tubuai Is., Vanuatu, Vietnam, and Wallis-Futuna Is..

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Heliotropium sarmentosum

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Heliotropium sarmentosum. See image source here.

#131 They called me Heliotropium sarmentosum, also known as Tournefortia horsfieldii. I pay homage to the male botanist Thomas Horsfield. They first catalogued me in 2005.

Native to Andaman Is., Bangladesh, Borneo, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, New Guinea, Philippines, Queensland, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, and Vietnam.