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Cyperus sphacelatus

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Cyperus sphacelatus. See image source here.

#896 They called me Cyperus sphacelatus, also known as Cyperus balbisii, and Cyperus duchaisingii. I pay homage to the male botanists Giovanni Battista Balbis, and Duchaising (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1773.

Native to Angola, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Central American Pac, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, French Guiana, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Suriname, Tanzania, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Venezuela, Windward Is., Zambia, and Zaïre.

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Calliandra guildingii

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Calliandra guildingii. See image source here.

#891 They called me Calliandra guildingii, also known as Anneslia guildingii, and Feuilleea guildingii. I pay homage to the male botanist Lansdown Guilding. They first catalogued me in 1844.

Native to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Trinidad-Tobago, and Venezuela.

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Trichilia pallida

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Trichilia pallida. See image source here.

#881 They called me Trichilia pallida, also known as Trichilia riedelii, Trichilia weddelii, Trichilia skutchii, and Trichilia davisii. I pay homage to the male botanists Riedel (I couldn’t find his records), Weddel (I couldn’t find his records), Skutch (I couldn’t find his records), and Walter Davis, Bradley Moore Davis, M. R. Davis, or William Thompson Davis. They first catalogued me in 1788.

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