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Digitaria longiflora

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Digitaria longiflora. See image source here.

#536 They called me Digitaria longiflora, also known as Digitaria corradii, Digitaria preslii, Digitaria friesii, Paspalum preslii, and Digitaria roxburghii. I pay homage to the male botanists Corrad (I couldn’t find his records), Elias Magnus Fries, William Roxburgh, and Jan Svatopluk Presl, or Carl Borivoj Presl. They first catalogued me in 1805.

Native to Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Borneo, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Congo, East Himalaya, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Maluku, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Pakistan, Philippines, Queensland, Rwanda, Réunion, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Transcaucasus, Uganda, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.

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Fimbristylis schultzii

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Fimbristylis schultzii. See image source here.

#522 They called me Fimbristylis schultzii, also known as Fimbristylis platystachys var. schultzii. I pay homage to the male botanist August Christian Schultz, or Arthur Schultz. They first catalogued me in 1874.

Native to Lesser Sunda Is., Northern Territory, Queensland, and Western Australia.

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Celtis philippensis

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#486 They called me Celtis philippensis, also known as Solenostigma wightii, Celtis hasseltii, Celtis wightii, Celtis philippensis var. wightii, Solenostigma hasseltii, Celtis brownii, and Celtis prantlii. I pay homage to the male botanists Johan Coenraad van Hasselt, Prantl (I couldn’t find his records), Robert Wight, or William Franklin Wight, and Robert Brown, Clair Alan Brown, Nicholas Edward Brown, Addison Brown, Andrew Phillip Brown, or William Brown. They first catalogued me in 1837.

Native to Andaman Is., Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Northern Territory, Philippines, Queensland, Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and Western Australia.