Edward Tuckerman was an American botanist and professor who made significant contributions to the study of lichens and other alpine plants. He was a founding member of the Natural History Society of Boston and most of his career was spent at Amherst College. He did the majority of his collecting on the slopes of Mount Washington in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Tuckerman Ravine was named in his honor. The standard botanical author abbreviation Tuck. is applied to species he described.
Joseph Marie Henry Alfred Perrier de la Bâthie was a French botanist who specialized in the plants of Madagascar.
Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel was a Dutch botanist, whose main focus of study was on the flora of the Dutch East Indies.
Reldia is a genus of plants in the family Gesneriaceae. They are also in the Beslerieae tribe.
Conrad Vernon Morton was an American botanist, who did notable writings on Ferns. He was also a specialist in Gesneriaceae and Solanaceae for the Smithsonian Institution from 1928.
Setchellanthus caeruleus is a species of pungent shrub with large blue flowers. It is placed alone in the genus Setchellanthus, which is in turn, is placed alone in the family Setchellanthaceae. It is endemic to Mexico.
Hans Schinz was a Swiss explorer and botanist who was a native of Zürich.
Bognera is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. The single species that makes up the genus is Bognera recondita. The word recondita means "hidden" referring to the fact that the plant is only found in remote areas of Amazonian Brazil near the Peruvian border. The species was discovered in the late 1970s and was originally placed in the genus Ulearum, as Ulearum reconditumMadison, Aroideana 3: 101 (1980).
Carlo Luigi Spegazzini, in Spanish Carlos Luis Spegazzini, was an Italian-born Argentinian botanist and mycologist.
Philipp Wilhelm Albrecht Zimmermann was a German botanist. He was a Professor of Botany at several different Universities . He was a botanist and collector of fungi and spermatophytes, who worked in Indonesia and Tanzania from 1902 to 1919. He moved to Indonesia in 1896 and studied applied botany. In 1902 he moved to Africa to join the Amani Research Institute that was established that year. He returned to Germany after World War I in 1920.
Jan Frederik Veldkamp was a Dutch botanist, plant taxonomist and grass specialist.
Schlechterella is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae. It is native to Africa, found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda.
Peter René Oscar Bally was a Swiss botanical illustrator, botanist and taxonomist. The standard author abbreviation P.R.O.Bally is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
Tennantia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rubiaceae. It only contains one known species, Tennantia sennii(Chiov.) Verdc. & Bridson
Iljinia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Amaranthaceae. It only contains one species, Iljinia regelii(Bunge) Korovin ex Iljin
Neomortonia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Gesneriaceae. It just contains one species, Neomortonia roseaWiehler
Paulita is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae.
Rugoloa is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Poaceae.
Mwasumbia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Annonaceae. The only known species is Mwasumbia alba.
Lueckelia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Orchidaceae. The only species is Lueckelia breviloba(Summerh.) Jenny It is within the Tribe Cymbidieae and Subtribus of Stanhopeinae Benth. (1881).
