Umm Alqura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia

^*Corresponding author: Norah Al Aboud, Umm Alqura University, Makkah 21955, Saudi Arabia; E-mail: amoa65@ hotmail.com

Copyright: © Norah Al Aboud. 2022. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Article Information: Submission: 26/10/2022; Accepted: 10/11/2022; Published: 15/11/2022

Plants have been assigned one epithet or name for their species and one name for their genus, a grouping of related species .There are several etymological sources for the names of the plants. These include sources from Greek, Latin and other languages include the places where it is originally discovered, the physical or chemical characteristics of the plants, or the persons who discovered them.

Many plants are known by more than one names. In this manuscript, I am going to shed lights on some of the people after whom some of the plants are named.

Eponyms; Nomenclature; Plants

Thousands of plants have been named for people, including botanists and their colleagues, plant collectors, horticulturists, explorers, rulers, politicians, clerics, doctors, philosophers and scientists [1,2].

Many people working on plants, know the names of the plants with eponymous names but may not know the origin of the names.

Even , if they know the origin , they dont have an idea about the person for whome the plant was named.

Therefore , in this tabulation view , I am going to shed light on selected people after whome some of the plants were named.

Some resources like (Bayton’s The Gardener’s Botanical[, Burkhardt’s Encyclopedia of Eponymic Plant Names, Burkhardt’s Index of Eponymic Plant Names[, Christenhusz’s Plants of the World, Coombes’s The A to Z of Plant Names[, Quattrocchi’s CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, Stearn’s Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners), remain an important references for researcher wishing to have more information about eponymus plants.

Several genera may named after a single person ,For example (Cullen and Cullenia , named for William Cullen).

On the other hand one genus may be named after more than person , for example (Cunninghamia named for James Cunninghame , and for Allan Cunningham).

List of selected people for whoom some of the plants were named below.

Moritz Kurt Dinter (1868 - 1945) was a German botanist and explorer in South West Africa. The following genera were named after him (Dintera, Dinteracanthus and Dinteranthus).

Erik Leonard Ekman (1883-1931) was a Swedish botanist and explorer. The following genera were named after him (Ekmania. Ekmanianthe. Ekmaniopappus, Ekmanochloa and Elekmania).

José Cuatrecasas (1903-1996) was a botanist. He was born in Camprodon, Catalonia, Spain.The following genera were named after him (Cuatrecasanthus, Cuatrecasasiella and Cuatresia).

René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec (1781-1826) was a French physician and musician. The genus Laennecia was named after him.

Jean Nicot de Villemain (1530 - 1604) was a French diplomat and scholar. The genus Nicotiana was named after him.

Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer (1829 -1927) was a Bavarian taxonomist and botanist. The genus Radlkofera and the genus Radlkoferotoma were named after him.

Julius von Sachs (1832-1897) was a German botanist. The genus Sachsia was named after him.

Johannes Elias Teijsmann (1808-1882) was a biologist, botanist and plant collector. He was born in Arnhem, The Netherlands. The genus Teijsmanniodendron was named after him.

Heinrich Zollinger (1818 -1859) was a Swiss botanist. The genus Zollingeria was named after him.