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Heliotropium steudneri

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Heliotropium steudneri. See image source here.

#758 They called me Heliotropium steudneri, also known as Heliotropium nelsonii, Heliotropium rogersii, Heliotropium gorinii, Heliotropium eduardii, and Heliotropium chiatellinii. I pay homage to the male botanists Richard Sanders Rogers, Gorin (I couldn’t find his records), Eduard (I couldn’t find his records), Chiatellin (I couldn’t find his records), and Cirilo Nelson, Carl Z. Nelson, Ernest Charles Nelson, Elias Emanuel Nelson, Erich Nelson, Edward William Nelson, Ira Schreiber Nelson, David Nelson, or Aven Nelson. They first catalogued me in 1875.

Native to Angola, Botswana, Cape Provinces, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Mozambique, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Oman, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Yemen, and Zimbabwe.

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Sedum hispanicum

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Sedum hispanicum. See image source here.

#668 They called me Sedum hispanicum, also known as Sedum witmannii, and Sedum andersonii. I pay homage to the male botanists Witmann (I couldn’t find his records), and Charles Lewis Anderson, Edward Frederick Anderson, Edgar Shannon Anderson, Alexander Anderson, James Anderson, or William Anderson. They first catalogued me in 1755.

Native to Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, East Aegean Is., Greece, Gulf States, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Switzerland, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Yemen, and Yugoslavia.

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Peperomia leptostachya

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Peperomia leptostachya. See image source here.

#640 They called me Peperomia leptostachya, also known as Peperomia esquirolii, Peperomia bequaertii, and Peperomia moerenhoutii. I pay homage to the male botanists Esquirol (I couldn’t find his records), Joseph Charles Bequaert, and Moerenhout (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1832.

Native to Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Provinces, China South-Central, China Southeast, Cook Is., Ethiopia, Fiji, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, Hawaii, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Malawi, Marquesas, Mozambique, Myanmar, New South Wales, Northern Provinces, Oman, Queensland, Rwanda, Samoa, Seychelles, Society Is., Socotra, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tonga, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.