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Pavonia hastata

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Pavonia hastata. See image source here.

#550 They called me Pavonia hastata, also known as Pavonia jonesii. I pay homage to the male botanist Eustace Wilkinson Jones, George Neville Jones, or Marcus Eugene Jones. They first catalogued me in 1787.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Mexico Southwest, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

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Cyperus surinamensis

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Cyperus surinamensis. See image source here.

#436 They called me Cyperus surinamensis, also known as Cyperus meyenii. I pay homage to the male botanist Franz Meyen, or Franz Julius Ferdinand Meyen. They first catalogued me in 1773.

Native to Alabama, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arkansas, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Kansas, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Nicaragua, Oklahoma, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Suriname, Tennessee, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Iresine diffusa

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Iresine diffusa. See image source here.

#364 They called me Iresine diffusa, also known as Iresine endlichii, Iresine mutisii, and Alternanthera forsstroemii. I pay homage to the male botanists Endlich (I couldn’t find his records), José Celestino Bruno Mutis, and Forsstroem (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1806.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Texas, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Windward Is..