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Pothos scandens

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Pothos scandens. See image source here.

#467 They called me Pothos scandens, also known as Pothos horsfieldii. I pay homage to the male botanist Thomas Horsfield. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, Comoros, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Madagascar, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Tibet, and Vietnam.

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Urena lobata

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Urena lobata. See image source here.

#454 They called me Urena lobata, also known as Urena swartzii, and Urena lobata f. swartzii. I pay homage to the male botanist Olof Swartz. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Repu, Central American Pac, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ethiopia, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, India, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Kenya, Laos, Leeward Is., Liberia, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Venezuela, Vietnam, Windward Is., Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.

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Arundina graminifolia

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Arundina graminifolia. See image source here.

#405 They called me Arundina graminifolia, also known as Arundina meyenii, Cymbidium meyenii, and Arundina philippii. I pay homage to the male botanists Philipp (I couldn’t find his records), and Franz Meyen, or Franz Julius Ferdinand Meyen. They first catalogued me in 1910.

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