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Xanthophyllum vitellinum

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Xanthophyllum vitellinum. See image source here.

#301 They called me Xanthophyllum vitellinum, also known as Xanthophyllum curtisii, and Xanthophyllum griffithii var. curtisii. I pay homage to the male botanists William Griffith, and Charles Curtis, Carlton Clarence Curtis, Charles Henry Curtis, William Curtis, or Moses Ashley Curtis. They first catalogued me in 1840.

Native to Andaman Is., Borneo, Jawa, Malaya, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sumatera, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Torenia crustacea

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Torenia crustacea. See image source here.

#299 They called me Torenia crustacea, also known as Vandellia brownii, and Lindernia crustacea var. smithii. I pay homage to the male botanists Robert Brown, Clair Alan Brown, Nicholas Edward Brown, Addison Brown, Andrew Phillip Brown, or William Brown, and James Edward Smith, Johannes Jacobus Smith, Winifred Smith, Christo Albertyn Smith, Charles Piper Smith, Gerard Edwards Smith, Gilbert Morgan Smith, Henry George Smith, Hamilton Lanphere Smith, Albert Charles Smith, Alan Reid Smith, or William Wright Smith. They first catalogued me in 1827.

Native to Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Repu, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Colombia, Congo, Cook Is., East Himalaya, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, French Guiana, Gabon, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Hainan, Honduras, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Korea, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malaya, Marquesas, Mexico Central, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panamá, Peru, Philippines, Samoa, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Society Is., Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Suriname, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Tonga, Uganda, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Is., West Himalaya, and Zaïre.

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Fimbristylis dichotoma

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Fimbristylis dichotoma. See image source here.

#293 They called me Fimbristylis dichotoma, also known as Fimbristylis scherardii, Fimbristylis germainii, Fimbristylis eggersii, Fimbristylis ramosii, Fimbristylis humboldtii, Isolepis elliottii, Fimbristylis metzii, and Scirpus elliottii. I pay homage to the male botanists Scherard (I couldn’t find his records), Germain (I couldn’t find his records), Henrik Franz Alexander von Eggers, Ramos (I couldn’t find his records), Alexander von Humboldt, Stephen Elliott, and Metz (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1805.

Native to Afghanistan, Alabama, Andaman Is., Angola, Argentina Northeast, Arizona, Arkansas, Assam, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Caroline Is., Cayman Is., Central African Repu, Central American Pac, Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Cook Is., Costa Rica, Cuba, Delaware, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Florida, Free State, French Guiana, Gabon, Galápagos, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Gilbert Is., Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Gulf States, Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Illinois, India, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Kamchatka, Kansas, Kazakhstan, Kazan-retto, Kentucky, Kenya, Kirgizstan, Korea, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Louisiana, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Maluku, Manchuria, Marianas, Maryland, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Mozambique, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New Jersey, New South Wales, New York, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Ogasawara-shoto, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pakistan, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Philippines, Primorye, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rodrigues, Rwanda, Réunion, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Society Is., Socotra, South Australia, South Carolina, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tasmania, Tennessee, Texas, Thailand, Tibet, Togo, Tokelau-Manihiki, Tonga, Transcaucasus, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Uganda, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Victoria, Vietnam, Virginia, Wallis-Futuna Is., West Himalaya, Western Australia, Windward Is., Xinjiang, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.