named after Men
#255 They called me Passiflora andersonii, also known as Tacsonia andersonii, and Decaloba andersonii. I pay homage to the male botanist Charles Lewis Anderson, Edward Frederick Anderson, Edgar Shannon Anderson, Alexander Anderson, James Anderson, or William Anderson. They first catalogued me in 1828.
#254 They called me Alyxia reinwardtii, also known as Alyxia winckelii, Alyxia forbesii, Alyxia kurzii, Gynopogon reinwardtii, and Alyxia kerrii. I pay homage to the male botanists Reinwardt (I couldn’t find his records), Winckel (I couldn’t find his records), Arthur Francis George Kerr, Charles Noyes Forbes, Edward Forbes, or Henry Ogg Forbes, and Hermann Kurz, Holger Willibald Kurz, Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz, or Albert Kurz. They first catalogued me in 1823.
#253 They called me Ixora coccinea, also known as Ixora shawii, Ixora coccinea var. hermannii, and Ixora eekhautii. I pay homage to the male botanists Paul Hermann, Eekhaut (I couldn’t find his records), and George Shaw, Henry Shaw, or Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw. They first catalogued me in 1753.
