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Digitaria horizontalis

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Digitaria horizontalis. See image source here.

#655 They called me Digitaria horizontalis, also known as Panicum hamiltonii. I pay homage to the male botanist William Hamilton, Arthur Andrew Hamilton, Alexander Greenlaw Hamilton, or Arthur Hamilton. They first catalogued me in 1809.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bahamas, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cayman Is., Central African Repu, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Galápagos, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Suriname, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is., and Zaïre.

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Peperomia glabella

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Peperomia glabella. See image source here.

#623 They called me Peperomia glabella, also known as Peperomia sintenisii, Peperomia taylorii, Peperomia buchii, Peperomia wilsonii, and Peperomia quadrivii. I pay homage to the male botanists Sintenis (I couldn’t find his records), Buch (I couldn’t find his records), Quadriv (I couldn’t find his records), Sir George Taylor, Nigel Paul Taylor, Norman Taylor, or William Randolph Taylor, and Edward Elmer Wilson, Ernest Henry Wilson, Hugh Wilson, or William M. Wilson. They first catalogued me in 1831.

Native to Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil South, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil Southeast, Cayman Is., Central American Pac, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Florida, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..

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Camonea umbellata

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Camonea umbellata. See image source here.

#622 They called me Camonea umbellata, also known as Ipomoea rothii, and Convolvulus rothii. I pay homage to the male botanist Georg Roth. They first catalogued me in 2017.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cameroon, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Liberia, Mali, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Sierra Leone, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..