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Cecropia peltata

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Cecropia peltata. See image source here.

#596 They called me Cecropia peltata, also known as Cecropia goodspeedii. I pay homage to the male botanist Thomas Harper Goodspeed. They first catalogued me in 1759.

Native to Belize, Brazil North, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panamá, Southwest Caribbean, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..

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Piper dilatatum

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Piper dilatatum. See image source here.

#594 They called me Piper dilatatum, also known as Piper eggersii, Piper readii, Piper grahamii, and Piper seitzii. I pay homage to the male botanists Henrik Franz Alexander von Eggers, Read (I couldn’t find his records), Robert Graham, and Seitz (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1792.

Native to Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..

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Piper umbellatum

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Piper umbellatum. See image source here.

#575 They called me Piper umbellatum, also known as Pothomorphe allenii. I pay homage to the male botanist Bruce H. Allen. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Windward Is..