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Symphonia globulifera

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Symphonia globulifera. See image source here.

#701 They called me Symphonia globulifera, also known as Aneuriscus aubletii. I pay homage to the male botanist Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet. They first catalogued me in 1782.

Native to Angola, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burundi, Cabinda, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, French Guiana, Gabon, Ghana, Guatemala, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Haiti, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Liberia, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Panamá, Peru, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Suriname, Tanzania, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Venezuela, Windward Is., Zambia, and Zaïre.

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Talinum fruticosum

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Talinum fruticosum. See image source here.

#699 They called me Talinum fruticosum, also known as Calandrinia lockhartii, Talinum andrewsii, and Calandrinia andrewsii. I pay homage to the male botanists Lockhart (I couldn’t find his records), and 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 1789.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bahamas, 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, 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, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..

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Astraea lobata

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Astraea lobata. See image source here.

#689 They called me Astraea lobata, also known as Astraea seemannii, Croton courtetii, and Croton lobatus var. seemannii. I pay homage to the male botanists Courtet (I couldn’t find his records), and Berthold Carl Seemann, or Wilhelm Eduard Gottfried Seemann. They first catalogued me in 1841.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Honduras, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..