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Bourreria succulenta

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#132 They called me Bourreria succulenta, also known as Bourreria wrightii. I pay homage to the male botanist Charles Henry Wright, Charles Wright, Edward Perceval (Percival) Wright, John Wright, or William Wright. They first catalogued me in 1763.

Native to Aruba, Bahamas, Cayman Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic, Florida, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Pentalinon luteum

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#129 They called me Pentalinon luteum, also known as Urechites andrewsii, and Echites andrewsii. I pay homage to the male botanist Cecil Rollo Payton Andrews, Charles William Andrews, Ebenezer Baldwin Andrews, George W. Andrews, Henry Nathaniel Andrews, Albert LeRoy Andrews, or Henry Cranke Andrews. They first catalogued me in 1986.

Native to Bahamas, Cayman Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic, Florida, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Turks-Caicos Is., and Windward Is..

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Dodonaea viscosa

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#58 They called me Dodonaea viscosa, also known as Dodonaea ehrenbergii, Dodonaea viscosa f. ehrenbergii, Dodonaea eriocarpa var. forbesii, Dodonaea eriocarpa var. skottsbergii, Dodonaea eriocarpa var. hillebrandii, and Dodonaea eriocarpa var. sherffii. I pay homage to the male botanists Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Skottsberg (I couldn’t find his records), Sherff (I couldn’t find his records), William (Wilhelm) Hillebrand, or William Francis Hillebrand, and Charles Noyes Forbes, Edward Forbes, or Henry Ogg Forbes. They first catalogued me in 1760.

Native to Afghanistan, Aldabra, Andaman Is., Angola, Argentina Northeast, Arizona, Assam, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Burundi, California, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Caroline Is., Cayman Is., Central African Repu, Chatham Is., Chile Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Cocos (Keeling) Is., Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Cook Is., Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, Florida, French Guiana, Galápagos, Gambia, Ghana, Gilbert Is., Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf States, Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, India, Iran, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jawa, Kazan-retto, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maldives, Maluku, Marshall Is., Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nauru, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Is., Northern Territory, Ogasawara-shoto, Oman, Pakistan, Panamá, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rwanda, Samoa, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Society Is., Solomon Is., Southwest Caribbean, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad-Tobago, Tubuai Is., Turks-Caicos Is., Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Is., West Himalaya, Western Australia, Windward Is., Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.