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Galactia dubia

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Galactia dubia. See image source here.

#549 They called me Galactia dubia, also known as Galactia dubia var. ehrenbergii. I pay homage to the male botanist Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg. They first catalogued me in 1825.

Native to Argentina Northwest, Bahamas, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Galápagos, Haiti, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southwest, Northern Territory, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Turks-Caicos Is., and Windward Is..

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Diplazium centripetale

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Diplazium centripetale. See image source here.

#529 They called me Diplazium centripetale, also known as Diplazium eggersii. I pay homage to the male botanist Henrik Franz Alexander von Eggers. They first catalogued me in 1926.

Native to Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Piper reticulatum

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Piper reticulatum. See image source here.

#520 They called me Piper reticulatum, also known as Artanthe schlechtendalii, Steffensia schlechtendalii, and Piper duchassaingii. I pay homage to the male botanists Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal, and Duchassaing (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Windward Is..