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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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Mecardonia procumbens

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Mecardonia procumbens. See image source here.

#451 They called me Mecardonia procumbens, also known as Bacopa procumbens var. schottii. I pay homage to the male botanist Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, Heinrich Schott, Anton Schott, or Arthur Carl Victor Schott. They first catalogued me in 1903.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Chile Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Galápagos, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, New Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Micropholis guyanensis

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Micropholis guyanensis. See image source here.

#441 They called me Micropholis guyanensis, also known as Mastichodendron williamsii, Pouteria piresii, Planchonella melinonii, Sideroxylon williamsii, Micropholis cowanii, Chrysophyllum melinonii, and Pouteria melinonii. I pay homage to the male botanists Pires (I couldn’t find his records), Melinon (I couldn’t find his records), John Macqueen Cowan, and Benjamin Samuel Williams, Ion James Muirhead Williams, Mark L. Williams, or Samuel Williams. They first catalogued me in 1891.

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