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Lasiacis divaricata

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Lasiacis divaricata. See image source here.

#455 They called me Lasiacis divaricata, also known as Lasiacis harrisii, and Panicum chauvinii. I pay homage to the male botanists Chauvin (I couldn’t find his records), and Warwick Harris, or Wayne K. Harris. They first catalogued me in 1910.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..

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Ouratea guildingii

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Ouratea guildingii. See image source here.

#452 They called me Ouratea guildingii, also known as Gomphia guildingii, and Trichouratea guildingii. I pay homage to the male botanist Lansdown Guilding. They first catalogued me in 1899.

Native to Colombia, Guyana, Leeward Is., Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..

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Rauvolfia viridis

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Rauvolfia viridis. See image source here.

#394 They called me Rauvolfia viridis, also known as Rauvolfia lamarckii, and Rauvolfia lamarkii. I pay homage to the male botanists Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, and Lamark (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1819.

Native to Aruba, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Leeward Is., Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..