List of plant genera named for people (A–C)

Since the first printing of Carl Linnaeus's Species Plantarum in 1753, plants have been assigned one epithet or name for their species and one name for their genus, a grouping of related species.[1] Thousands of plants have been named for people, including botanists and their colleagues, plant collectors, horticulturists, explorers, rulers, politicians, clerics, doctors, philosophers and scientists.[2] Even before Linnaeus, botanists such as Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Charles Plumier and Pier Antonio Micheli were naming plants for people, sometimes in gratitude for the financial support of their patrons.[3]

seated woman in a faded photograph
Alice Eastwood (1859–1953), curator for the botanical collection of the California Academy of Sciences (see Aliciella)

Early works researching the naming of plant genera include an 1810 glossary by Alexandre de Théis [fr] and an etymological dictionary in two editions (1853 and 1856) by Georg Christian Wittstein.[3] Modern works include The Gardener's Botanical by Ross Bayton, Index of Eponymic Plant Names and Encyclopedia of Eponymic Plant Names by Lotte Burkhardt, Plants of the World by Maarten J. M. Christenhusz (lead author), Michael F. Fay and Mark W. Chase, The A to Z of Plant Names by Allan J. Coombes, the four-volume CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names by Umberto Quattrocchi, and Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners by William T. Stearn; these supply the seed-bearing genera listed in the first column below. Excluded from this list are genus names not accepted (as of January 2021) at Plants of the World Online, which includes updates to Plants of the World (2017).

Key

Ba = listed in Bayton's The Gardener's Botanical[4]
Bt = listed in Burkhardt's Encyclopedia of Eponymic Plant Names[5]
Bu = listed in Burkhardt's Index of Eponymic Plant Names[6]
Ch = listed in Christenhusz's Plants of the World[7]
Co = listed in Coombes's The A to Z of Plant Names[8]
Qu = listed in Quattrocchi's CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names[9]
St = listed in Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners[10]

In addition, Burkhardt's Index is used as a reference for every row in the table not cited to Stearn.

Genera

Aaronsohnia
Daguerreotype of Adrien-Henri de Jussieu
Portrait of Christoph Jacob Trew
Mary Agnes Chase, sitting at desk with specimens
Ainsliaea cordifolia
Alamania punicea
Allan Cunningham
Alberta magna
Albertinia brasiliensis
Luigi D'Albertis
Albizia julibrissin
Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia)
Alex George
Sarah Amherst
Amsinckia eastwoodiae
Anguloa clowesii
John Arrowsmith
August Grisebach
Averroes in a 14th-century painting by Andrea di Bonaiuto
Avicenna
Badilloa
Baileya multiradiata
Banksia serrata
Mary Elizabeth Barber
Benjamin Smith Barton
Bartsia alpina
Batemannia
Bauhinia blakeana
Hugo Baum
Beaucarnea
Begonia
Bellendena montana
Benzingia
Bergenia crassifolia
Peter Jonas Bergius
Berkheya
Berlinia
Bertolonia
Beschorneria
Portrait of Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser
Beyeria lechenaultii
Bikkia
Bismarckia
William Bligh
Frans Blom
Bobartia
Paolo Boccone
Boltonia asteroides
Bolusiella
Bust of Charles Bonnet
Bosea yervamora berries
Portrait of James Boswell by Joshua Reynolds
Bowdichia
William Brackenridge
Brahea calcarea
Marie de Brimeu
Brocchinia
Brodiaea
João Barbosa Rodrigues
Bromelia balansae
Bromheadia brevifolia
Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart
Brugmansia
Brunnera
Brunonia
Susanna Bixby Bryant Museum
Bucquetia
Bulnesia
Caesia
Jean-Louis Calandrini
Camellia
Carlina
Andrew Carnegie
Casimiroa
Castilleja
Changnienia
Chaubardia
Charlotte Percy, Duchess of Northumberland
Clowesia
Cadwallader Colden
Collinsonia
Cologania
Colquhounia
José Correia da Serra
Cousinia
Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland
Crantzia
Crowea saligna
Curtisia
Cussonia
Cuttsia
Domenico Cirillo
Genera
Genus[11][b]Person honored[c]Plant family[11]Ref
AaKarl vom Stein zum Altenstein (1770–1840), politician[d]OrchidaceaeBu
AaronsohniaAaron Aaronsohn (1876–1919)AsteraceaeBu
AbatiaPedro Abad y Mestre (1747–1800), Spanish apothecary and professor of botany in SevilleSalicaceaeBu
AbeliophyllumClarke Abel (1789 - 1826), surgeon and naturalist.OleaceaeBt
AchariaErik Acharius (1757–1819)AchariaceaeBu
AcostiaMisael Acosta Solís (1910–1994)PoaceaeBu
AcourtiaMary Elizabeth Catherine Gibbs à Court-Repington (1792–1878), English noblewoman with botanical interests; married Charles Ashe à Court-RepingtonAsteraceaeBu
AcunaeanthusJulián Acuña Galé (1900–1973)RubiaceaeBu
AdansoniaMichel Adanson (1727–1806)MalvaceaeSt
AdeliniaAdeline Etta Cohen (b. 2014), daughter of the American author of the plant, James I. CohenBoraginaceaeBt
AdelmeriaAdolph Daniel Edward Elmer (1870–1942)ZingiberaceaeBu
AdlumiaJohn Adlum (1759–1836)PapaveraceaeSt
AdolphiaAdolphe-Théodore Brongniart (1801–1876)RhamnaceaeBu
AdrianaAdrien-Henri de Jussieu (1797–1853)EuphorbiaceaeBu
AeginetiaPaul of Aegina (c. 625 – c. 690), doctorOrobanchaceaeBu
AenhenryaAmbrose Nathaniel Henry (b. 1936), English naturalist with a focus on the flora of IndiaOrchidaceaeBu
AfgekiaArthur Francis George Kerr (1877–1942)FabaceaeBu
AfrobrunnichiaMorten Thrane Brünnich (1737–1827)PolygonaceaeBu
AfrofittoniaSarah Mary Fitton (c.1796–1874), and her sister Elizabeth FittonAcanthaceaeBu
AfroguatteriaGiambattista Guatteri (1739–1793), Italian professor of botany in ParmaAnnonaceaeBu
AfrotrewiaChristoph Jacob Trew (1695–1769)EuphorbiaceaeBu
AfrotysoniaWilliam Tyson (1851–1920), Jamaican-born South African teacher and plant collectorBoraginaceaeBu
AfzeliaAdam Afzelius (1750–1837)FabaceaeBu
AgaristaAgariste of Sicyon (fl. 6th century BC, around 560 BC), Greek daughterEricaceaeBt
AgateaAlfred Thomas Agate (1812–1846), painter and illustratorViolaceaeBu
AgiortiaDespina (Fanias) Agioritis (1927–1994), Australian botanist from Innisfail, QueenslandEricaceaeBu
AgnesiaMary Agnes Chase (1869–1963)PoaceaeBu
AguiariaBrás de Aguiar (1881–1947), Brazilian naval officer who supported the author of the genus, Adolpho DuckeMalvaceaeBu
AherniaGeorge Patrick Ahern (1859–1940), American forester and botanist who served in the military in Cuba and the Philippines; namesake of Ahern PeakAchariaceaeQu
AinsliaeaWhitelaw Ainslie (1767–1837)AsteraceaeBu
AiryanthaHerbert Kenneth Airy Shaw (1902–1985)FabaceaeBu
AkeassiaLaurent Aké Assi (1931–2014), Ivorian professor of botany in Abidjan; founded a botanical garden in CocodyAsteraceaeBu
AkrosidaAntonio Krapovickas (1921–2015)MalvaceaeBu
AkschindliumAnton Karl Schindler (1879–1964)FabaceaeBu
AlamaniaLucas Alamán (1792–1853), politicianOrchidaceaeBu
AlaniaAllan Cunningham (1791–1839)BoryaceaeBu
AlbertaAlbertus Magnus (c.1200–1280), saintRubiaceaeBu
AlbertiniaJohannes Baptista von Albertini (1769–1831)AsteraceaeBu
AlbertisiaLuigi D'Albertis (1841–1901)MenispermaceaeBu
Albidellaanagram of Baldellia, for Bartolomeo Bartolini-Baldelli (1804–1868), Italian nobleman; close advisor to Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, in FlorenceAlismataceaeBu
AlbiziaFilippo del Albizzi (of the 18th-century Albizzis in Florence, Italy)FabaceaeCo
AlbrauniaAlexander Braun (1805–1877)PlantaginaceaeBu
AlcantareaPedro II of Brazil (1825–1891)BromeliaceaeBu
AlchorneaStanesby Alchorne (1727–1800), English botanist at the Chelsea Physic GardenEuphorbiaceaeQu
AlchorneopsisEuphorbiaceaeBu
AldamaIgnacio Aldama (1769–1811), Mexican lawyerAsteraceaeBu
AldinaTobia Aldino (16th–17th century), Italian doctor and botanist; in charge of the medicinal garden of Cardinal Odoardo FarneseFabaceaeBu
AldrovandaUlisse Aldrovandi (1522–1605)DroseraceaeSt
AlexaAlexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia) (1798–1860)FabaceaeBu
AlexfloydiaAlexander Floyd (b. 1926)PoaceaeBu
AlexgeorgeaAlex George (b. 1939)RestionaceaeBu
AlfaroaAnastasio Alfaro (1865–1951)JuglandaceaeBu
AlfrediaAlfred of Sareshel (12th C.), translatorAsteraceaeBu
AlgernoniaHugh Algernon Weddell (1819–1877)EuphorbiaceaeBu
AlgrizeaGraziela Maciel Barroso (1912–2003)MyrtaceaeBu
AlibertiaJean-Louis-Marc Alibert (1768–1837), doctorRubiaceaeBu
AliciaAlicia Lourteig (1913–2003)MalpighiaceaeBu
AliciellaAlice Eastwood (1859–1953), curator for the botanical collection of the California Academy of SciencesPolemoniaceaeBu
AliellaSyed Irtifaq Ali (b. 1930), Pakistani professor of botany in KarachiAsteraceaeBu
AllamandaFrédéric-Louis Allamand (1736–1809)ApocynaceaeCo
AllanblackiaAllan Black (1832−1865)ClusiaceaeBu
AllardiaJean-François Allard (1785–1839), military officerAsteraceaeBu
AlleizettellaAymar Charles d'Alleizette (1884–1967)RubiaceaeBu
AllenrolfeaRobert Allen Rolfe (1855–1921)AmaranthaceaeBu
AllioniaCarlo Allioni (1728–1804)NyctaginaceaeSt
AllittiaWilliam Allitt (1828–1893), Irish-born Australian botanical curator in QueenslandAsteraceaeBu
AllmaniaWilliam Allman (1776–1846)AmaranthaceaeBu
AllmaniopsisAmaranthaceaeBu
AllomarkgrafiaFriedrich Markgraf (1897–1987)ApocynaceaeBu
AllowoodsoniaRobert Everard Woodson (1904–1963)ApocynaceaeBu
AlluaudiaCharles A. Alluaud (1861–1949)DidiereaceaeBu
AlluaudiopsisDidiereaceaeBu
AlmaleeaAlma Theodora Lee (1912–1990)FabaceaeBu
AlmutasterAlmut Gitter Jones (1923–2013)AsteraceaeBu
AlonsoaZenón Alonso (1756–1812), Spanish official in BogotáScrophulariaceaeSt
AloysiaMaria Luisa of ParmaVerbenaceaeCo
AlphandiaAdolphe Alphand (1817–1891), engineerEuphorbiaceaeBu
AlphonseaAlphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1806–1893)AnnonaceaeBu
AlpiniaProspero Alpini (1553–1617)ZingiberaceaeCo
AlrawiaAli Al-Rawi (fl. 1955–1987), Iraqi botanist in charge of the national herbarium in BaghdadAsparagaceaeBu
AlshehbaziaIhsan Ali Al-Shehbaz (b.1939), Iraqi American botanistBrassicaceaeBt
AlstoniaCharles Alston (1683–1760)ApocynaceaeSt
AlstroemeriaClas Alströmer (1736–1794)AlstroemeriaceaeCh
AltensteiniaKarl vom Stein zum Altenstein (1770–1840), educatorOrchidaceaeBu
AltheniaJean Althen (1709–1774)PotamogetonaceaeBu
AlvaradoaPedro de Alvarado (c. 1485–1541), conquistadorPicramniaceaeBu
AlvesiaBento Antonio Alves (c.1796–1878), a Portuguese gardener who accompanied the author of this genus, Friedrich Welwitsch, on botanical excursionsLamiaceaeBu
AlvimianthaPaulo de Tarso Alvim (1919-2011)RhamnaceaeBu
AlzateaJosé Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez (1737–1799)AlzateaceaeCh
AmasoniaGeorge Anson, 1st Baron Anson (1697–1762)LamiaceaeBu
AmbrosinaBartolomeo Ambrosini (1588–1657)AraceaeBu
AmeghinoaCarlos Ameghino (1865–1936)AsteraceaeBu
AmelichloaMaría Amelia Torres (1934–2011), Argentinian botanist, lecturer and curator of the Herbarium of the National University of La PlataPoaceaesBt
AmesiellaOakes Ames (1874–1950)OrchidaceaeBu
AmesiodendronSapindaceaeBu
AmherstiaSarah Amherst (1762–1838)FabaceaeSt
AmiciaGiovanni Battista Amici (1786–1863)FabaceaeSt
AmmanniaPaul Amman (1634–1691)LythraceaeBu
AmoliniaJosé Antonio Molina Rosito (1926–2020)AsteraceaeBu
AmorimiaAndré M. Amorim (b. 1966), Brazilian botanist and Malpighiaceae specialistMalpighiaceaeBu
AmpereaAndré-Marie Ampère (1775–1836), physicistEuphorbiaceaeBu
AmsinckiaWilhelm Amsinck (1752–1831), head of state of Hamburg; botanical patronBoraginaceaeQu
AmsoniaJohn (or Charles) Amson, 18th-century physician and botanistApocynaceaeCo
AnaxagoreaAnaxagoras (c.500–c.428 BC), philosopherAnnonaceaeBu
AnchieteaJoseph of Anchieta (1534–1597)ViolaceaeBu
AnderbergiaArne A. Anderberg (b. 1954), professor of botany at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm; Asteraceae specialistAsteraceaeBu
AndersoniaWilliam Anderson, William Anderson and Alexander AndersonEricaceaeBu
AndersonglossumWilliam Russell Anderson (1942–2013), American botanist; director of the New York Botanical Garden HerbariumBoraginaceaeBt
AndradeaJosé Bonifácio de Andrada (1763–1838)NyctaginaceaeBu
AndreadoxaAndré Maurício Vieira de Carvalho (1951–2002), Brazilian curator at the Bahia herbarium; specialist in that state's floraRutaceaeBu
AndrianaAndriantsimitoviaminandriandehibe (died c.1670), kingApiaceaeBu
AndrzeiowskiaAntoni Andrzejowski (1784 or 1785 –1868)BrassicaceaeBu
AnelsoniaAven Nelson (1859–1952)BrassicaceaeBu
AngeldiaziaAngel Diaz Celis, Peruvian botanist; university rector in the 1980sAsteraceaeBu
AnguloaFrancisco de Angulo, (d. 1815) General Prefect of Mines of Spain. Botanist.OrchidaceaeSt
AnnesijoaJohn VI of Portugal (1767–1826)EuphorbiaceaeBu
AnnesleaGeorge Annesley, 2nd Earl of Mountnorris (1770–1844)PentaphylacaceaeBu
AnnickiaAnnick Le Thomas (b. 1936), French botanist at the National Museum of Natural HistoryAnnonaceaeBu
AnselliaJohn Ansell (d. 1847), British botanistOrchidaceaeSt
AntinoriaVincenzo Antinori (1792–1865)PoaceaeBu
AntoniaArchduke Anton Victor of Austria (1779–1835)LoganiaceaeBu
AntopetitiaAntoine Petit (d. 1843), French doctor and naturalist from Paris; travelled in the Ethiopian EmpireFabaceaeQu
AnvilleaJean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697–1782)AsteraceaeBu
AppertiellaOtto Appert (1930–2012), Swiss clergyman and paleontologist; missionary in MadagascarHydrocharitaceaeBu
ApuleiaApuleius (c.124 – c.170), philosopher and writerFabaceaeBu
AragoaFrançois Arago (1786–1853)PlantaginaceaeBu
AraujiaAntónio de Araújo e Azevedo, 1st Count of Barca (1754–1817)ApocynaceaeCo
ArbelaezasterEnrique Pérez Arbeláez (1896–1972), Colombian clergyman and botanist who founded the Bogotá Botanical GardenAsteraceaeBu
ArberellaAgnes Arber (1879–1960)PoaceaeBu
ArboaMaría Mercedes Arbo (b. 1945), Argentine botanist, curator, professor and explorerPassifloraceaeBt
ArcangelisiaGiovanni Arcangeli (1840–1921)MenispermaceaeBu
ArchboldiodendronRichard Archbold (1907–1976)TheaceaeBu
ArcheriaWilliam Archer (1820–1874)EricaceaeBu
ArchytaeaArchytas (435/410 – 360/350), philosopher and scientistBonnetiaceaeBu
ArcoaGeorg von Arco (1869–1940), physicistFabaceaeBu
ArfeuilleaCharles Hippolyte Marie Mourin d'Arfeuille (1837–1909), French naval officer who mapped and described a region of the Mekong RiverSapindaceaeBu
ArgomuelleraJohannes Müller Argoviensis (1828-1896)EuphorbiaceaeBu
ArgyliaArchibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll (1682–1761)BignoniaceaeBu
AristeguietiaLeandro Aristeguieta (1923–2012), Venezuelan botanist (dendrologist); professor in CaracasAsteraceaeQu
AristoteliaAristotle (384–322 BC), polymathElaeocarpaceaeCo
ArjonaFrancisco Arjona (18th century), Spanish botanist who taught in Cádiz around 1797SchoepfiaceaeQu
ArnaldoaArnaldo López Miranda (1922–2010), Peruvian botanist and professor at the National University of TrujilloAsteraceaeBu
ArrojadoaMiguel Arrojado Lisboa (1872–1932), Brazilian engineer and geologistCactaceaeQu
ArrojadocharisAsteraceaeBu
ArrowsmithiaJohn Arrowsmith (1790–1873)AsteraceaeBu
ArtediaPeter Artedi (1705–1735)ApiaceaeBu
ArundoclaytoniaWilliam Derek Clayton (b. 1926), English botanist and agronomist; taxonomist at Kew GardensPoaceaeBu
AschersoniodoxaPaul Friedrich August Ascherson (1834–1913)BrassicaceaeBu
AshtoniaPeter Shaw Ashton (born 27 June 1934)PhyllanthaceaeBu
AskelliaÁskell Löve (1916–1994)AsteraceaeBu
Aspasiaprobably Aspasia, intellectualOrchidaceaeSt
AsplundiaErik Asplund (1888–1974), Swedish botanist and professor in UppsalaCyclanthaceaeQu
AsplundianthusAsteraceaeBu
AstiellaSuzanne Jovet-Ast (1914–2006)RubiaceaeBu
AstoniaHelen Isobel Aston (1934–2020)AlismataceaeBu
AstridiaAstrid Elise (Wilberg) Schwantes (1887–1960); her connection to the genus is unclear. Married to the German botanist and archeologist Martin Heinrich Gustav Schwantes.AizoaceaeQu
AthertoniaJohn Atherton (1837–1913), and the Atherton TablelandProteaceaeBu
AtkinsoniaLouisa Atkinson (1834–1872)LoranthaceaeBu
AttilaeaAttila Borhidi (b. 1932)AnacardiaceaeBu
AubletianaJean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet (1720–1778)EuphorbiaceaeBu
AubregriniaAndré Aubréville (1897–1982) and François Pellegrin (1881–1965)SapotaceaeBu
AubrevilleaAndré Aubréville (1897–1982)FabaceaeBu
AubrietaClaude Aubriet (c.1665 or 1651 –1742)BrassicaceaeCo
AucklandiaGeorge Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland (1784–1849)AsteraceaeBu
AudouiniaJean Victor Audouin (1797–1841)BruniaceaeBu
AuerodendronCarl Auer von Welsbach (1858–1929), scientistRhamnaceaeBu
AugouardiaProsper Philippe Augouard (1852–1921), explorer and missionaryFabaceaeBu
AugustaCaroline Augusta of Bavaria (1792–1873)RubiaceaeBu
AugusteaAugust Grisebach (1814–1879)CaryophyllaceaeBu
AustrobaileyaFrederick Manson Bailey (1827–1915) and Irving Widmer Bailey (1884–1967)AustrobaileyaceaeCh
AustrobrickelliaJohn Brickell (1748–1809), Irish-born American doctor and botanistAsteraceaeBu
AustrocritoniaCriton of Heraclea (c. 100 AD)AsteraceaeBu
AustroeupatoriumMithridates VI Eupator (135–63 BC)AsteraceaeBu
AustromatthaeaMatteo di San Giuseppe (1612–1691), Italian clergyman, doctor, botanist, and linguistMonimiaceaeBu
AustromuelleraFerdinand von Mueller (1825–1896)ProteaceaeBu
AustrosteenisiaCornelis Gijsbert Gerrit Jan van Steenis (1901–1986)FabaceaeBu
AutranellaVictor Marius François Autran (1860–1927), French colonial administrator who collected plants in equatorial AfricaSapotaceaeBu
AvelliniaGiulio Avellino (fl. 1840–43), Italian botanist in NaplesPoaceaeQu
AverrhoaAverroes (1126–1198), polymathOxalidaceaeBa
AverrhoidiumSapindaceaeBu
AvicenniaAvicenna (c. 980 –1037)AcanthaceaeBu
AyeniaLouis de Noailles (1713–1793), noblemanMalvaceaeBu
Ayensua
(synonym of Brocchinia)
Edward S. Ayensu (b.1935)BromeliaceaeBu
AzanzaMiguel José de Azanza, 1st Duke of Santa Fe (1746–1826)MalvaceaeBu
AzaraJosé Nicolás de Azara (1730–1804), diplomatSalicaceaeCo
BabingtoniaCardale Babington (1808–1895)MyrtaceaeBu
BachmanniaFranz Ewald Theodor Bachmann (1856–1916)CapparaceaeBu
BackhousiaJames Backhouse (1794–1869)MyrtaceaeSt
BadieraBarthélémy de Badier (d. 1789), French collector of plants from Saint-Domingue and elsewherePolygalaceaeBu
BadilloaVíctor Manuel Badillo (1920–2008), Venezuelan botanist in Maracay at the agronomical herbarium of the Central University of VenezuelaAsteraceaeQu
BaeckeaAbraham Bäck (1713–1795), Swedish botanist and royal personal physicianMyrtaceaeBa
BaeriopsisKarl Ernst von Baer (1792–1876)AsteraceaeBu
BahiopsisJuan Francisco de Bahí y Fonseca (1775–1841), Spanish military doctor; professor of botany in BarcelonaAsteraceaeBu
BaikiaeaWilliam Balfour Baikie (1825–1864)FabaceaeBu
BaileyaJacob Whitman Bailey (1811–1857)AsteraceaeBu
BaileyoxylonIrving Widmer Bailey (1884–1967)AchariaceaeBu
BaillonellaHenri Ernest Baillon (1827–1895)SapotaceaeBu
BaisseaNicolas Sarrabat (1698–1739)ApocynaceaeBu
BakerellaJohn Gilbert Baker (1834–1920)LoranthaceaeBu
BakeridesiaEdmund Gilbert Baker (1864–1949)MalvaceaeBu
BalbisiaGiovanni Battista Balbis (1765–1831)FrancoaceaeBu
BaldelliaBartolomeo Bartolini-Baldelli (1804–1868), Italian nobleman; close advisor to Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, in FlorenceAlismataceaeQu
BalduinaWilliam Baldwin (1779–1819)AsteraceaeBu
BalfourodendronJohn Hutton Balfour (1808–1884)RutaceaeBu
BaliziaFilippo del Albizzi (of the 18th-century Albizzis in Florence, Italy)FabaceaeBu
BallantiniaMary (Ballantyne) Smith (fl. 1840s), British plant collector from New Norfolk in AustraliaBrassicaceaeQu
BallochiaRobert Balloch (1825–1902), Scottish merchant from Glasgow; father-in-law of the author of the genus nameAcanthaceaeBu
BallyanthusPeter René Oscar Bally (1895–1980)ApocynaceaeBu
BalmeaJuan Balme Giraud (1880–1964), French-born Mexican professor of horticulture; director of Chapultepec, a large urban park in Mexico CityRubiaceaeBu
BaloghiaJózsef Balogh (1750–1781), doctor from Transylvania who wrote a dissertation on medically important plantsEuphorbiaceaeQu
BaltimoraFrederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore (1731–1771)AsteraceaeBu
BambekeaCharles Eugène Marie van Bambeke (1829–1918), Belgian botanist (mycologist); doctor and professor in GhentCucurbitaceaeQu
BampsiaPaul Rodolphe Joseph Bamps (b. 1932), Belgian botanistLinderniaceaeBu
BanisteriopsisJohn Banister (1654–1692)MalpighiaceaeBu
BanksiaJoseph Banks (1743–1820)ProteaceaeCo
BarbaceniaLuís António Furtado de Castro do Rio de Mendonça e Faro (1754–1830), governor of Minas Gerais in BrazilVelloziaceaeBu
BarbaceniopsisVelloziaceaeBu
BarberettaMary Elizabeth Barber (1818–1899)HaemodoraceaeBu
BarbeuiaJacques Barbeu-Dubourg (1709–1779)BarbeuiaceaeCh
BarbeyaWilliam Barbey (1842–1914)BarbeyaceaeCh
BarbieriaJean-Baptiste-Grégoire Barbier (1776–1855), French doctor, pharmacist and botanist in AmiensFabaceaeBu
BarbosellaJoão Barbosa Rodrigues (1842–1909)OrchidaceaeBu
BarclayaRobert Barclay (1757–1830), English botanist and horticulturalistNymphaeaceaeSt
BardotiaMartine Bardot-Vaucoulon (b. 1948), French teacher and botanist who was the first to collect this plant in MadagascarOrobanchaceaeBu
BarfussiaMichael Harald Johannes Barfuss (b. 1977), Austrian botanist; specialist in BromeliaceaeBromeliaceaeBu
BarjoniaBarjon, a specialist in French Guianese plantsApocynaceaeBu
BarkeriaGeorge Barker (1776–1845)OrchidaceaeBu
BarkleyanthusTheodore Mitchell Barkley (1934–2004), American botanist; professor and curator at Kansas State UniversityAsteraceaeBu
BarklyaHenry Barkly (1815–1898), colonial administratorFabaceaeSt
BarleriaJacques Barrelier (1606–1673), French botanist and clergyman; plant collector in southern France, Spain and ItalyAcanthaceaeSt
BarleriolaAcanthaceaeBu
BarnadesiaMiguel Barnades (1708/1717–1771), Spanish botanist; personal physician to Charles III; professor at the botanical garden in MadridAsteraceaeQu
BarnardiaEdward Barnard (1786–1861), English zoologist and botanist; vice president of the Royal Horticultural SocietyAsparagaceaeBu
BarnebyaRupert Charles Barneby (1911–2000)MalpighiaceaeBu
BarnebydendronFabaceaeBu
BarnhartiaJohn Hendley BarnhartPolygalaceaeBu
BaroniaRichard Baron (1847–1907)AnacardiaceaeBu
BaroniellaApocynaceaeBu
BarringtoniaDaines Barrington (1727/28 – 1800)LecythidaceaeSt
BarrosoaGraziela Maciel Barroso (1912-2003)AsteraceaeBu
BarteriaCharles Barter (1821–1859)PassifloraceaeBu
BartheaJean Barthe (1814–1866), French naval doctor who wrote about his botanical observationsMelastomataceaeBu
BarthlottiaWilhelm Barthlott (b. 1946)ScrophulariaceaeBu
BartholinaThomas Bartholin (1616–1680), doctorOrchidaceaeBu
BartholomaeaBartolomé de las Casas (1484–1566), bishopSalicaceaeBu
BartlettiaJohn Russell Bartlett (1805–1886), historianAsteraceaeBu
BartlettinaHarley Harris Bartlett (1886–1960)AsteraceaeBu
BartoniaBenjamin Smith Barton (1766–1815)GentianaceaeBu
BartsiaJohann Bartsch (1709–1738)OrobanchaceaeBu
BasedowiaHerbert Basedow (1881–1933)AsteraceaeBu
BaskervillaThomas Baskerville (1812–1840 ?)OrchidaceaeBu
BasseliniaOlivier Basselin (c. 1400 – c. 1450), poetArecaceaeBu
BassiaFerdinando Bassi (1710–1774), Italian botanistAmaranthaceaeCo
BastardiastrumToussaint Bastard (1784–1846), French physician; professor of botany and director of the botanical garden in AngersMalvaceaeBu
BatemanniaJames Bateman (1811–1897)OrchidaceaeSt
BatesanthusGeorge Latimer Bates (1863–1940)ApocynaceaeBu
BatesiaHenry Walter Bates (1825–1892)FabaceaeBu
BatesimalvaDavid Martin Bates (1934–2019), American professor of botany at Cornell UniversityMalvaceaeBu
BathiorhamnusJoseph Marie Henry Alfred Perrier de la Bâthie (1873–1958)RhamnaceaeBu
BatopedinaCornelis Eliza Bertus Bremekamp (1888–1984)RubiaceaeBu
BaudouiniaLouis Alexis Baudoin (1776—1805), naval officerFabaceaeBu
BaueraFranz (1758–1840) and Ferdinand Bauer (1760–1826)CunoniaceaeSt
BauhiniaJohann (1541–1613) and Gaspard Bauhin (1560–1624)FabaceaeSt
BaumiaHugo Baum (1867–1950)OrobanchaceaeBu
BaxteriaWilliam Baxter (1787 - between 1830 and 1836)DasypogonaceaeSt
BayabusuaBaya Busu, assistant in the herbarium of the Forest Research Institute MalaysiaCucurbitaceaeBu
BaynesiaMaudsley Baynes (1881–1971), English-born South African naturalistApocynaceaeBu
BeaucarneaJean-Baptiste Beaucarne (1802 – 1889), Flemish lawyer who raised succulents and orchids for competitionsAsparagaceaeBa
BeaufortiaMary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort (baptised 1630 –1715)MyrtaceaeSt
BeaumontiaDiana Wentworth Beaumont (d. 1831), botanical patron at Bretton Hall, West YorkshireApocynaceaeSt
BeaupreaCharles-François Beautemps-Beaupré (1766–1854)ProteaceaeBu
BeaupreopsisProteaceaeBu
BeautempsiaCapparaceaeBu
BebbiaMichael Schuck Bebb (1833–1895)AsteraceaeBu
BeccarianthusOdoardo Beccari (1843–1920)MelastomataceaeBu
BeccarindaGesneriaceaeBu
BeccariophoenixArecaceaeBu
BeckmanniaJohann Beckmann (1739–1811)PoaceaeBu
BeclardiaPierre Augustin Béclard (1785–1825), doctorOrchidaceaeBu
BecquereliaAntoine César Becquerel (1788–1878), scientistCyperaceaeBu
BedfordiaJohn Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford (1766–1839)AsteraceaeBu
BeesiaArthur Bulley (1861–1942), of Bees NurseryRanunculaceaeBa
BegoniaMichel Bégon (1638–1710), government official and plant collectorBegoniaceaeCh
BegueaLouis Henri Bégué (1906–1979), French civil servant in the forestry service in Ivory Coast and MadagascarSapindaceaeBu
BehaimiaMartin Behaim (1459–1507)FabaceaeBu
BehniaWilhelm Friedrich Georg Behn (1808–1878)AsparagaceaeBu
BeilschmiediaCarl Traugott Beilschmied (1793–1848)LauraceaeBu
BeirnaertiaAbiron-Frans-Adolf-Désiré Beirnert (1903–1941), Belgian botanist and agronomist, and a section head at the National Institute for Agronomic Study of the Belgian CongoMenispermaceaeBu
BeiseliaKarl-Werner Beisel (b. c. 1931), German merchant; cactus collector and growerBurseraceaeBu
BejaranoaGastón Bejarano (20th century), Bolivian director of forestry and national parksAsteraceaeBu
BejariaJosé de Bejar (17th century), Spanish doctor and botanist from CadizEricaceaeSt
BellardiaCarlo Antonio Lodovico Bellardi (1741–1826), Italian professor of botany; doctor in TurinOrobanchaceaeQu
BellardiochloaPoaceaeBu
BellendenaJohn Bellenden Ker Gawler (1764–1842)ProteaceaeBu
BellevaliaPierre Richer de Belleval (1564–1632)AsparagaceaeCo
BelloaAndrés Bello (1781–1865), polymath and diplomatAsteraceaeBu
BelloniaPierre Belon (1517–1564)GesneriaceaeBu
BelluciaToma Belluci (d. 1672), Italian botanical garden director in PisaMelastomataceaeBu
BencomiaBencomo (c. 1438–1494), kingRosaceaeBu
BenincasaGiuseppe Benincasa (died late 1595)CucurbitaceaeCo
BenjaminiaLudwig Benjamin (1825–1848)PlantaginaceaeBu
BennettiodendronJohn Joseph BennettSalicaceaeBu
BenoistiaRaymond Benoist (1881–1970)EuphorbiaceaeBu
BensoniellaGilbert Thereon Benson (1896–1928), American botanist; librarian of the Dudley Herbarium at Stanford UniversitySaxifragaceaeQu
BenstoneaBenjamin Clemens Stone (1933–1994)PandanaceaeBu
BenthamiaGeorge Bentham (1800–1884)OrchidaceaeBu
BenthamiellaSolanaceaeBu
BenthaminaLoranthaceaeBu
BentinckiaLord William Bentinck (1774–1839), colonial administratorArecaceaeBu
BenzingiaDavid Hill Benzing (b. 1937), American botanist and professor of biology at Oberlin College; specialist in Bromeliaceae and epiphytesOrchidaceaeBu
BenzoniaPeder Eggert Benzon (1788–1848), Danish pharmacist and botanist in Saint CroixRubiaceaeBu
BequaertiaJoseph Charles Bequaert (1886–1982)CelastraceaeBu
BerardiaPierre Bérard (c. 1580 – c. 1664), French apothecary and botanist in Grenoble; wrote a six-volume encyclopedia of plantsAsteraceaeBu
BerchemiaJacob Pierre Berthoud van Berchem (1763–1832), Dutch-born Swiss naturalist and mineralogistRhamnaceaeBa
BerchemiellaRhamnaceaeQu
BergeniaKarl August von Bergen (1704–1759)SaxifragaceaeCo
BergeranthusAlwin Berger (1871–1931)AizoaceaeBu
BergerocactusCactaceaeSt
BerghesiaCarl de Berghes (1792–1869), German engineer; collected plants near the Aztec ruins in Zacatecas in MexicoRubiaceaeBu
BergiaPeter Jonas Bergius (1730–1790)ElatinaceaeBu
BerhautiaJean Berhaut (1902–1977), French clergyman, botanist and entomologist; collected plants in SenegalLoranthaceaeQu
BerkheyaJohannes le Francq van Berkhey (1729–1812)AsteraceaeSt
BerlandieraJean-Louis Berlandier (1803–1851)AsteraceaeSt
BerliniaAndreas Berlin (1746–1773)FabaceaeBu
BernardiaCharles Bernard (1699–1777)EuphorbiaceaeBt
BerneuxiaSiméon-François Berneux (1814–1866), missionaryDiapensiaceaeBu
BernoulliaCarl Gustav Bernoulli (1834–1878), Swiss doctor and botanist; collected plants in the Mayan ruins of Tikal in Chiapas in MexicoMalvaceaeBu
BerroaMariano B. Berro (d. 1922), Uruguayan botanist in Montevideo; specialist in grassesAsteraceaeBu
BerryaAndrew Berry (1764–1833), English doctor with the Madras Medical Service (now part of the Army Medical Corps) in India; sent plants to the botanical garden in KolkataMalvaceaeQu
BerteroaCarlo Luigi Giuseppe Bertero (1789–1831)BrassicaceaeSt
BertholletiaClaude Louis Berthollet (1748–1822), chemist[e]LecythidaceaeSt
BertieraBertier, a French Guianese woman who helped Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet with his study of the native plants, including this genusRubiaceaeBu
BertoloniaAntonio Bertoloni (1775–1869)MelastomataceaeSt
BertyaLéonce de Lambertye (1810–1877), French botanist and horticulturalist; wrote about strawberries and other plants in the vicinity of the MarneEuphorbiaceaeQu
BerylsimpsoniaBeryl B. Simpson (b. 1942)AsteraceaeBu
BerzeliaJöns Jacob Berzelius (1779–1848), chemistBruniaceaeBu
BeschorneriaFriedrich Wilhelm Christian Beschorner (1806–1873), German-Silesian psychiatrist with botanical interests; was related to the author of this genusAsparagaceaeBa
BesseraWilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser (1784–1842)AsparagaceaeCo
BethencourtiaJean de Béthencourt (1362–1425), colonial administratorAsteraceaeBu
BewsiaJohn Bews (1884—1938)PoaceaeBu
BeyeriaAdriaan de Beijer (1773–1843), Dutch City Secretary in Nijmegen; researched and wrote about grasses and spore-bearing plantsEuphorbiaceaeBu
BhideaShri Ramchandra Kashinath Bhide (1873–1946), Indian curator at the agricultural college in PunePoaceaeBu
BiancaeaGiuseppe Bianca (1801–1883), Italian botanist and agronomist; cultivated almond trees in Avola on SicilyFabaceaeBu
BiebersteiniaFriedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein (1768–1826)BiebersteiniaceaeCh
BienertiaTheophil Joachim Heinrich Bienert (1833–1873)AmaranthaceaeBu
BiermanniaAdolph Biermann (d. 1880), curator of the botanical garden in KolkataOrchidaceaeQu
BigelowiaJacob Bigelow (1787–1879)AsteraceaeSt
BignoniaJean-Paul Bignon (1662–1743), statesman and royal librarianBignoniaceaeCh
Bikkiaeither Adrianus Johannes Bik (1790–1872) or his brother Jannus Theodorus Bik (1796–1875), both botanical illustratorsRubiaceaeBu
BillardieraJacques Labillardière (1755–1834)PittosporaceaeCo
BillbergiaGustaf Johan Billberg (1772–1844)BromeliaceaeSt
BillburttiaB. L. Burtt (1913–2008)ApiaceaeBu
BilliaJohann Georg Bill (1813–1870), Austrian professor of botany at the University of GrazSapindaceaeBu
BillieturneraBillie Lee Turner (1925–2020)MalvaceaeBu
BilloliviaOlive Mary Hilliard (b. 1925) and B. L. Burtt (1913–2008)GesneriaceaeBu
BisboeckeleraJohann Otto Boeckeler (1803–1899)CyperaceaeBu
BischofiaGottlieb Wilhelm Bischoff (1797–1854)PhyllanthaceaeSt
BisglazioviaAuguste François Marie Glaziou (1828–1906)MelastomataceaeBu
BisgoeppertiaHeinrich Göppert (1800–1884)GentianaceaeBu
BishopanthusLuther Earl Bishop (1943–1991), American botanist; collected in the US and ColombiaAsteraceaeBu
BishopiellaAsteraceaeBu
BishoviaAsteraceaeBu
BismarckiaOtto von Bismarck (1815–1898), chancellorArecaceaeSt
BiviniaLouis Hyacinthe Boivin (1808–1852), French botanist; collected for the National Museum of Natural HistorySalicaceaeQu
BivonaeaAntonino de Bivona-Bernardi (1774 or 1778–1837)BrassicaceaeBu
BlachiaJean Gaston Marie Blache (1799–1871), French doctor who supported the author of this genus, Henri Ernest BaillonEuphorbiaceaeBu
BlackalliaWilliam Blackall (1876–1941)RhamnaceaeBu
BlackstoniaJohn Blackstone (1712–1753), English apothecary and botanistGentianaceaeQu
BlainvilleaHenri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777–1850)AsteraceaeBu
BlakeaMartin Blake of Antigua, friend and patron of the author of this genus, Patrick BrowneMelastomataceaeQu
BlakiellaSidney Fay Blake (1892–1959)AsteraceaeBu
BlanchetiaJacques Samuel Blanchet (1807–1875), Swiss merchant, botanist and plant collector; worked for a Swiss export firm in Bahia in BrazilAsteraceaeQu
BlanchetiodendronFabaceaeBu
BlancoaFrancisco Manuel Blanco (1779–1845)HaemodoraceaeBu
BlandfordiaGeorge Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough (1766–1840)BlandfordiaceaeCh
BleasdaleaJohn Bleasdale (1822–1884)ProteaceaeBu
BleekrodeaSalomon Abraham Bleekrode (1814–1862), Dutch doctor in Groningen; professor of natural scienceMoraceaeBu
BletiaLuis Blet y Gazel (1742–1808), Spanish military and court apothecary in Argentina and SpainOrchidaceaeBa
BletillaOrchidaceaeCo
BlighiaWilliam Bligh (1754–1817), naval officerSapindaceaeSt
BlighiopsisSapindaceaeBu
BlinkworthiaRobert Blinkworth, collector of plants for Nathaniel Wallich around Yangon[f]ConvolvulaceaeQu
BlomiaFrans Blom (1893–1963), archeologistSapindaceaeBu
BloomeriaH. G. Bloomer (1821–1874), American botanist in CaliforniaAsparagaceaeSt
BlossfeldiaHarry Blossfeld (1913–1986), German-born Brazilian gardener in São Paulo; collected plants in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia and PeruCactaceaeBa
BlotiellaMarie Laure Tardieu-Blot (1902–1998)DennstaedtiaceaeBt
BlumeaCarl Ludwig Blume (1796–1862)AsteraceaeBu
BlumenbachiaJohann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840)LoasaceaeSt
BlumeodendronCarl Ludwig Blume (1796–1862)EuphorbiaceaeBu
BobartiaJacob Bobart the Younger (1641–1719)IridaceaeBu
BobeaJean-Baptiste Bobe-Moreau (1761–1849), French doctor and naval pharmacist in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime; published a catalog of the plants in that district, and founded a directory of eponymic plant namesRubiaceaeQu
BobgunniaCharles Robert Gunn (1927–2015), American director of the National Seed Herbarium at the Department of Agriculture; wrote a multi-volume work on FabaceaeFabaceaeBu
BocageaManuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage (1765–1805), poetAnnonaceaeBu
BocageopsisAnnonaceaeBu
BocconiaPaolo Boccone (1633–1704)PapaveraceaeSt
BocquilloniaHenri Théophile Bocquillon (1834–1884)EuphorbiaceaeBu
BoeaFrançois Beau (1723–1804), French priest and mayor in Toulon-sur-Arroux in BurgundyGesneriaceaeBu
BoeberastrumJohann von Böber (1746–1820)AsteraceaeBu
BoeberoidesAsteraceaeBu
BoecheraTyge W. Böcher (1909–1983)BrassicaceaeBu
BoehmeriaGeorg Rudolf Boehmer (1723–1803)UrticaceaeSt
BoeicaFrançois Beau (1723–1804), French priest and mayor in Toulon-sur-Arroux in BurgundyGesneriaceaeBu
BoelckeaOsvaldo Boelcke (1920–1990), Argentinian botanist and agronomist; professor at the University of Buenos Aires; specialist in BrassicaceaePlantaginaceaeBu
BoenninghauseniaClemens Maria Franz von Bönninghausen (1785–1864)RutaceaeCo
BoerhaviaHerman Boerhaave (1668–1738)NyctaginaceaeBu
BoerlageaJacob Gijsbert Boerlage (1849–1900)MelastomataceaeBu
BoesenbergiaClara and Walter Bösenberg, sister and brother-in-law of the author of this genus, Otto KuntzeZingiberaceaeBu
BogneraJosef Bogner (b. 1939), German botanist; director of the botanical garden in Munich; specialist in AraceaeAraceaeBu
BolandraHenry Nicholas Bolander (1831–1897)SaxifragaceaeBu
BoltoniaJames Bolton (1735–1799)AsteraceaeCo
BolusafraHarry Bolus (1834–1911)FabaceaeBu
BolusanthusFabaceaeBa
BolusiaFabaceaeBu
BolusiellaOrchidaceaeBu
BomareaJacques-Christophe Valmont de Bomare (1731–1807)AlstroemeriaceaeSt
BomareaJacques-Christophe Valmont de Bomare (1731–1807)AlstroemeriaceaeSt
BommeriaJean-Édouard Bommer (1829–1895)PteridaceaeBt
BonaniaSebastian Bonani, research assistant to Ramón de la SagraEuphorbiaceaeBu
BonanniaAntonino Bonanni, student of and illustrator for Francesco CupaniApiaceaeBu
BonateaGiuseppe Antonio Bonato (1753–1836), Italian professor of botany and director of the botanical garden in PaduaOrchidaceaeQu
BonelliaFranco Andrea Bonelli (1784–1830)PrimulaceaeBu
BonetiellaFederico Bonet Marco (1906–1980), Spanish entomologist, micropaleontologist and speleologist, initially at the National Museum of Natural Sciences and the veterinary school in Madrid; fled to Mexico in the late 1930s and became a professorAnacardiaceaeBu
BongardiaGustav Heinrich von Bongard (1786–1839)BerberidaceaeCo
BoniaHenri François Bon (1844–1894), French clergyman and amateur botanist; collected in IndochinaPoaceaeBu
BoniodendronSapindaceaeBu
BonnayaCharles François, Marquis de Bonnay, army officer and politicianLinderniaceaeBu
BonnetiaCharles Bonnet (1750–1825)BonnetiaceaeCh
BonplandiaAimé Bonpland (1773–1858)PolemoniaceaeBu
BontiaJacobus Bontius (1592–1631), doctorScrophulariaceaeBu
BonyuniaGeorge R. Bonyun (c. 1811 – 1853), doctor in Georgetown, Guyana; friend of the author of the genus, Moritz Richard SchomburgkLoganiaceaeBu
BordasiaEugenia E. Bordas (d. 2018), Paraguayan botanist; was with the group that found the plantMalvaceaeBu
BorismeneBoris Alexander Krukoff (1898–1983)MenispermaceaeQu
BornmuelleraJoseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller (1862–1948)BrassicaceaeBu
BorodiniaIvan Parfenievich Borodin (1847-1930)BrassicaceaeBu
BoroniaFrancesco Borone (1769–1794), Italian naturalistRutaceaeSt
BorrichiaOle Borch (1626-1690)AsteraceaeBu
BorthwickiaAlbert William Borthwick (1872–1937), Scottish botanist and professor of forestry at the University of AberdeenResedaceaeBu
BoryaJean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778–1846)BoryaceaeBu
BorzicactusAntonino Borzì (1852–1921)CactaceaeBu
BoschiaJohannes van den Bosch (1780–1844), colonial administratorMalvaceaeBu
BoschniakiaAlexander Karlovich Boschniak (1786–1831), Russian botanistOrobanchaceaeBu
BosciaLouis Augustin Guillaume Bosc (1759–1828)CapparaceaeBu
BoseaCaspar Bose (1645–1700) and his brother Georg Bose (1650–1700), German merchants who established baroque gardens in LeipzigAmaranthaceaeBu
BosistoaJoseph Bosisto (1827–1898)RutaceaeBu
BosseraJean Marie Bosser (1922–2013)EuphorbiaceaeBu
BossiaeaJoseph Hugues Boissieu La Martinière (1758–1788)FabaceaeSt
BoswelliaJames Boswell (1740–1795), writerBurseraceaeSt
BotschantzeviaVictor Botchantsev (1910-1990)BrassicaceaeBu
BottegoaVittorio Bottego (1860–1897), army officerRutaceaeBu
BouchardatiaApollinaire Bouchardat (1809–1886)RutaceaeBu
BoucheaPeter Friedrich Bouché (1785–1856), and his brother, Peter Karl Bouché (1783–1856), a gardener and botanistVerbenaceaeBu
BouchetiaDominique Bouchet-Doumenq (1771–1844), French physician and botanist in MontpellierSolanaceaeQu
BoueaAmi Boué (1794–1881)AnacardiaceaeBu
BouffordiaDavid Edward Boufford (b. 1941), an American botanist (bryology and pteridology), from the Herbaria at Harvard UniversityFabaceaeBt
BougainvilleaLouis Antoine de Bougainville (1729–1811), naval officerNyctaginaceaeCo
BourreriaJohann Ambrosius Beurer (1716–1754), German physician, apothecary and naturalistBoraginaceaeBu
BousigoniaĖtienne Nicolas Aristide Bousigon (b. 1836), French naval officer, plant collectorApocynaceaeBu
BoutelouaClaudio Boutelou (1774–1842), Spanish gardener and botanist, and his brother Esteban Boutelou (1776–1813), botanist and agronomistPoaceaeBa
BoutiqueaRaymond Boutique (1906–1985), Belgian botanistAnnonaceaeBu
BoutoniaLouis Bouton (1800–1878), French-Mauritian botanist in Port Louis, MauritiusAcanthaceaeQu
BouvardiaCharles Bouvard (1572–1658)RubiaceaeCo
BouzetiaEugène du Bouzet (1805–1867), French counter admiral and governor of New Caledonia; promoter of natural scientistsRutaceaeBu
BowdichiaThomas Edward Bowdich (1791–1824)FabaceaeBu
BoweniaGeorge Bowen (1821–1899), colonial administratorZamiaceaeBa
BowieaJames Bowie (c. 1789–1869)AsparagaceaeSt
BowkeriaJames Henry Bowker (1825–1900), and Mary Elizabeth (Bowker) Barber (1818–1899)StilbaceaeSt
BowlesiaWilliam Bowles (1705–1780)ApiaceaeBu
BowringiaJohn Bowring (1792–1872), colonial administrator, and his son John Charles Bowring (1821–1893)FabaceaeBu
BoyaniaJonah Boyan (fl. 1952), and Rufas Boyan (fl. 1950–1969), Arawak horticulturalists who worked for the British Guyana Forestry Department and the New York Botanical GardenMelastomataceaeBu
BoykiniaSamuel Boykin (1786–1846), American botanist in GeorgiaSaxifragaceaeSt
BrackenridgeaWilliam Brackenridge (1810–1893)OchnaceaeBu
BradburiaJohn Bradbury (1768–1823)AsteraceaeBu
BradeaAlexander Curt Brade (1881–1971)RubiaceaeBu
BraemiaGuido Jozef Braem (b. 1944), Belgian-born German natural scientist (botanist, chemist, molecular biologist)OrchidaceaeQu
BraheaTycho Brahe (1546–1601), astronomerArecaceaeSt
BrandegeaTownshend Stith Brandegee (1843–1925)CucurbitaceaeBu
BrandellaAugust Brand (1863–1930)BoraginaceaeBu
BrandisiaDietrich Brandis (1824–1907)OrobanchaceaeBu
BrandzeiaDimitrie Brândză (1846–1895)FabaceaeBu
BraseniaChristoph Brasen (1738–1774), Danish doctor, missionary and botanistCabombaceaeBu
BrassaiopsisSámuel Brassai (1797–1897)AraliaceaeBu
BrassavolaAntonio Musa Brassavola (1500–1555), doctorOrchidaceaeSt
BrassiaWilliam Brass (d. 1783), English botanist; collected in West AfricaOrchidaceaeSt
BrassianthaLeonard John Brass (1900–1971)CelastraceaeBu
BrassiophoenixArecaceaeBu
BraunsiaHans Brauns (1857–1929)AizoaceaeBu
BravaisiaAuguste Bravais (1811–1863), and his brother Louis (1801–1843), doctor and botanistAcanthaceaeBu
BrayaFranz Gabriel von Bray (1765–1832), Bavarian diplomat and naturalist; German ambassador to the United KingdomBrassicaceaeQu
BrayopsisBrassicaceaeBu
BrazzeiaPierre Savorgnan de Brazza (1852–1905), explorerLecythidaceaeBu
BredemeyeraFranz Bredemeyer (1758–1839), Austrian imperial court gardener at Schönbrunn PalacePolygalaceaeQu
BrediaJacob Gijsbertus Samuël van Breda (1788–1867)MelastomataceaeBu
BremeriaBirgitta Bremer (b. 1950)RubiaceaeBu
BrenandendronJohn Patrick Micklethwait Brenan (1917-1985)AsteraceaeBu
BrenaniaRubiaceaeBu
BreniereaJean Brenière (1924–2014); worked for the agricultural service in Madagascar in the 1950s as head of the Betioky anti-locust stationFabaceaeBu
BreonadiaJean Nicolas Bréon (1785–1864)RubiaceaeBu
BreoniaRubiaceaeBu
BretschneideraEmil Bretschneider (1833–1901)AkaniaceaeBu
BrevieaJules Brévié (1880–1964), colonial administratorSapotaceaeBu
BreyniaJacob Breyne (1637–1697), and his son Johann Philipp Breyne (1680–1764)PhyllanthaceaeBa
BrianhuntleyaBrian Huntley (b. 1944)AizoaceaeBu
BrickelliaJohn Brickell (1748–1809), Irish-born American doctor and botanistAsteraceaeSt
BrickelliastrumAsteraceaeQu
BrideliaSamuel Elisée Bridel-Brideri (1761–1828)PhyllanthaceaeBu
BridgesiaThomas Bridges (1807–1865)SapindaceaeBu
BridsoniaDiane Mary Bridson (b.1942), English botanist and illustrator from Royal Botanic Gardens, KewRubiaceaeBt
BrieyaJacques de Briey (1885–1914), French-born Belgian agronomistAnnonaceaeBu
BriggsiopsisMunro Briggs Scott (1889–1917)GesneriaceaeBu
BrighamiaWilliam Tufts Brigham (1841–1926)CampanulaceaeBu
BrillantaisiaLouis-Marie Marion-Brillantais (1743–1829), French ship designer and shipping magnate who provided wood for military shipsAcanthaceaeBu
BrimeuraMarie de Brimeu (ca.1550–1605)AsparagaceaeCo
BrintoniaJeremiah Bernard Brinton (1835–1894), American botanist and Solidago specialistAsteraceaeBu
BriquetiaJohn Isaac Briquet (1870–1931)MalvaceaeBu
BrocchiaGiovanni Battista Brocchi (1772–1826)AsteraceaeBu
BrocchiniaBromeliaceaeBu
BrodiaeaJames Brodie (1744–1824)AsparagaceaeCo
BrodriguesiaJoão Barbosa Rodrigues (1842–1909)FabaceaeBu
BrombyaJohn Edward Bromby (1809–1889), schoolmasterRutaceaeBu
BromeliaOlof Bromelius (1639–1705), Swedish doctor and botanistBromeliaceaeCh
BromheadiaEdward Bromhead (1789–1855), mathematicianOrchidaceaeSt
BrongniartiaAdolphe-Théodore Brongniart (1801–1876)FabaceaeBu
BronweniaBronwen Gates (b. 1945), American botanist; wrote a monograph on MalpighiaceaeMalpighiaceaeBu
BrookeaJames Brooke (1803–1868), ruler of SarawakPlantaginaceaeBu
BroughtoniaArthur Broughton (c. 1758–1796)OrchidaceaeSt
BroussonetiaPierre Marie Auguste Broussonet (1761–1807)MoraceaeCo
BrowalliaJohannes Browallius (1707–1755)SolanaceaeCo
BrowneaPatrick Browne (1720–1790)FabaceaeSt
BrowneopsisFabaceaeBu
BrowningiaWebster E. Browning (1869–1942), teacher; director of the Instituto Inglés in Santiago de ChileCactaceaeBa
BrownleeaJohn Brownlee (1791–1871), English botanist, clergyman, linguist, gardener, and missionary in South AfricaOrchidaceaeQu
BrownlowiaAmelia Sophia Hume (1788–1814), patron of the natural sciences; married John Cust, 1st Earl BrownlowMalvaceaeBu
BruceaJames Bruce (1730–1794), travel writerSimaroubaceaeBu
BrugmansiaSebald Justinus Brugmans (1763–1819)SolanaceaeCo
BruguieraJean Guillaume Bruguière (1749–1798)RhizophoraceaeBu
BruinsmiaAbraham Eduard Johannes Bruinsma (1852–1943), Dutch forester in the Dutch East IndiesStyracaceaeBu
BrunelliaGabriele Brunelli (1728–1797), Italian clergyman and botanist; botanical garden curator in BolognaBrunelliaceaeCh
BrunfelsiaOtto Brunfels (1488? –1534)SolanaceaeCo
BruniaAlexander Brown (fl. 1692–1698), English doctor and plant collector; ship's doctor with the East India CompanyBruniaceaeQu
BrunneraSamuel Brunner (1790–1844), Swiss botanistBoraginaceaeCo
BrunnichiaMorten Thrane Brünnich (1737–1827)PolygonaceaeBu
BrunoniaRobert BrownGoodeniaceaeSt
BrunoniellaAcanthaceaeBu
BrunsvigiaCharles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1713–1780)AmaryllidaceaeSt
BryaJ. T. de Bry (1564–1617), engraverFabaceaeSt
BryantiellaSusanna Bixby Bryant (1880–1946), founded the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden (now the California Botanic Garden), near the present-day Susanna Bixby Bryant MuseumPolemoniaceaeBu
BrylkiniaAleksandr Dmitrievich Brylkin (fl. 1859–1865), ethnographer and plant collector in SiberiaPoaceaeBu
BuchananiaFrancis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762–1829)AnacardiaceaeBu
BuchholziaReinhold Wilhelm Buchholz (1837–1876)CapparaceaeBu
BuchneraAndreas Elias Büchner (1701–1769), German physician, natural scientist and professor of medicineOrobanchaceaeBu
BuchnerodendronMax Buchner (1846–1921), German doctor, ethnologist and explorerAchariaceaeBu
BuchtieniaOtto Buchtien (1859–1946), German teacher and botanist; plant collector in ChileOrchidaceaeQu
BuckinghamiaThe 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1823–1889)ProteaceaeBu
BuckleyaSamuel Botsford Buckley (1809–1884)SantalaceaeBu
Buckolliaanagram of Bullockia, for Arthur Allman Bullock (1906–1980)ApocynaceaeBu
BucquetiaJean-Baptiste-Michel Bucquet (1746–1780), chemistMelastomataceaeBu
BuddlejaAdam Buddle (1662–1715)ScrophulariaceaeCo
BuergersiochloaTheodor Joseph Bürgers (with name variants), (1881–1954), German doctor and zoologistPoaceaeBu
BufoniaGeorges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788)CaryophyllaceaeBu
BuforrestiaThomas Forrest (c.1729–c.1802), navigatorCommelinaceaeBu
BukinicziaDimitri D. Bukinich (1882–1939), Russian geographer, hydrogeologist and ethnographer; also a botanist and agronomistPlumbaginaceaeBu
BulleyiaArthur Bulley (1861–1942)OrchidaceaeBu
BullockiaArthur Allman Bullock (1906–1980), English botanist at Kew Herbarium from 1929 to 1968RubiaceaeBu
BulnesiaManuel Bulnes (1799–1866), presidentZygophyllaceaeBu
BungeaAlexander von Bunge (1803–1890)OrobanchaceaeBu
BurbidgeaFrederick William Burbidge (1847–1905)ZingiberaceaeBa
BurchardiaJohann Heinrich Burckhard (1676–1738), German doctor; city physician in WolfenbüttelColchicaceaeQu
BurchelliaWilliam John Burchell (1781–1863)RubiaceaeSt
BurckellaWilliam Burck (1848–1910)SapotaceaeBu
BurdachiaKarl Friedrich Burdach (1776–1847)MalpighiaceaeBu
BurkartiaArturo Eduardo Burkart (1906–1975), Argentine botanist and agricultural engineer; professor of agricultural sciences in La PlataAsteraceaeBu
BurkeaJoseph Burke (1812–1873)FabaceaeBu
BurkillanthusIsaac Henry Burkill (1870–1965)RutaceaeBu
BurkilliodendronFabaceaeBu
BurmanniaJohannes Burman (1707–1780)BurmanniaceaeCh
BurmeisteraHermann Burmeister (1807–1892)CampanulaceaeBu
BurnatiaÉmile Burnat (1828–1920)AlismataceaeBu
BurnettiaGilbert Thomas Burnett (1800–1835)OrchidaceaeBu
BurretiodendronMax Burret (1883–1964)MalvaceaeBu
BurretiokentiaArecaceaeBu
BurseraJoachim Burser (1583-1639)BurseraceaeCh
BurttiaBernard Dearman Burtt (1902–1938), British botanist in TanganyikaConnaraceaeQu
BusseaWalter Carl Otto Busse (1868–1933)FabaceaeBu
ButeaJohn Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713–1792)FabaceaeSt
ButtoniaEdward Button (1836–1900), English botanist; collected plants in South AfricaOrobanchaceaeQu
CabraleaPedro Álvares Cabral (c.1467 or 1468–c.1520), explorerMeliaceaeBu
CabreriellaÁngel Lulio Cabrera (1908–1999)AsteraceaeBu
CacciniaMatteo Caccini (1573–1640), Italian aristocrat and botanistBoraginaceaeBu
CadelliaFrancis Cadell (1822–1879), explorer and colonialistSurianaceaeBu
CaesalpiniaAndrea Cesalpino (1524–1603)FabaceaeCo
CaesiaFederico Cesi (1585–1630)AsphodelaceaeBu
CailliellaRené Caillié (1799–1838), explorerMelastomataceaeBu
CalandriniaJean-Louis Calandrini (1703–1758)MontiaceaeCo
CaldcluviaAlexander Caldcleugh (d. 1858), traveler and fellow of the Royal SocietyCunoniaceaeSt
CaldesiaLodovico Caldesi (1821–1884), Italian politician and botanistAlismataceaeQu
CaleanaGeorge Caley (1770–1829)OrchidaceaeBu
CalibrachoaAntonio de la Cal y Bracho (1764/1766–1833), Spanish-born Mexican botanist and professor of pharmacologySolanaceaeBu
CalleryaJoseph-Marie Callery (1810–1862), French clergyman and sinologist; collected plants for Joseph DecaisneFabaceaeBu
CallistheneCallisthenes, historianVochysiaceaeBu
CalodecaryiaRaymond Decary (1891–1973), French botanistMeliaceaeQu
CalomeriaNapoleon Bonaparte, probably, from Greek for "attractive part" (Italian "buena parte")AsteraceaeSt
CalpurniaCalpurnius, first-century poetFabaceaeSt
CalueraCarlyle A. Luer (1922–2019)OrchidaceaeBu
CalvoaAtilano Calvo Iturburi (19th century), Spanish magistrate on Bioko island, off Equatorial GuineaMelastomataceaeBu
CamareaManuel Ferreira da Câmara Bethencourt Aguiar e Sá (1764–1835), Brazilian scientist; discovered the connection between volcanos and obsidianMalpighiaceaeBu
CambessedesiaJacques Cambessèdes (1799–1863)MelastomataceaeBu
CamelliaGeorg Joseph Kamel (1661–1706)TheaceaeCo
CamerariaJoachim Camerarius the Younger (1534–1598)ApocynaceaeBu
CamissoniaAdelbert von Chamisso (1781–1838)OnagraceaeBu
CamissoniopsisOnagraceaeBu
CamoensiaLuís de Camões (c.1524 or 1525–1580), poetFabaceaeSt
CampbelliaWilliam Hunter Campbell (1814–1883), secretary of what is now the Botanical Society of Scotland, and his brother J. Campbell, who collected plants for him in IndiaOrobanchaceaeBu
CampomanesiaPedro Rodríguez, Count of Campomanes (1723–1802)MyrtaceaeBu
CanbyaWilliam Marriott Canby (1831–1904)PapaveraceaeBu
CancriniaGeorg Ludwig Cancrin (1774–1845), noblemanAsteraceaeBu
CancriniellaAsteraceaeBu
CandolleodendronAugustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778–1841)FabaceaeBu
CantinoaPhilip D. Cantino (b. 1948), American botanist at Ohio University; specialised in LamiaceaeLamiaceaeBu
CantleyaNathaniel Cantley (1847–1888)StemonuraceaeBu
CapanemiaGuilherme Schüch Capanema (1824–1908), Brazilian engineer and naturalistOrchidaceaeQu
CaperoniaNoël Caperon (d. 1572), French apothecary in OrleansEuphorbiaceaeQu
CapitanopsisBaron von Müller-Prosko-Capitany (b. 1860); collected these plants near the Red Sea around 1880LamiaceaeBu
CapurodendronRené Paul Raymond Capuron (1921–1971)SapotaceaeBu
CapuroniaLythraceaeBu
CapuronianthusMeliaceaeBu
CardenasiodendronMartín Cárdenas (1899–1973)AnacardiaceaeBu
CardosoaHelder Cardoso, the first to collect these plantsAsteraceaeBu
CardwelliaEdward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell (1813–1886)ProteaceaeBu
CareyaWilliam Carey (1761–1834), missionaryLecythidaceaeBu
CarinianaEugène-Emmanuel de Savoie-Villafranca (1816–1888), nobleman of the House of Savoy-Carignano who funded the Brazilian excursions of the author of the genusLecythidaceaeBu
CarlemanniaCharles Morgan Lemann (1806–1852)CarlemanniaceaeBu
CarlephytonGeorges Louis Carle (1879–1945), French agricultural engineer and head of the French colonial administration in MadagascarAraceaeBu
CarlesiaWilliam Richard Carles (1848–1929), British diplomat who collected plants for the Royal Botanic Gardens while in KoreaApiaceaeBu
CarlinaCharlemagne (747–814), emperorAsteraceaeCo
CarlowrightiaCharles Wright (1811–1885)AcanthaceaeBu
CarlquistiaSherwin Carlquist (1930-2021)AsteraceaeBu
CarludovicaCharles IV of Spain (1748–1819) and Maria Luisa of Parma (1751–1819)CyclanthaceaeSt
CarmichaeliaDugald Carmichael (1772–1827)FabaceaeCo
CarminatiaBassiano Carminati (1750–1830), Italian doctor in Lodi; professor in PaviaAsteraceaeBu
CarnarvoniaHenry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon (1831–1890)ProteaceaeBu
CarnegieaAndrew Carnegie (1835–1919), industrialist and philanthropistCactaceaeSt
CarnegieodoxaMonimiaceaeBu
CarolusCharles Cavender Davis (b. 1974), American botanist; specialist in MalpighiaceaeMalpighiaceaeBu
CarpenteriaWilliam Marbury Carpenter (1811–1848)HydrangeaceaeCo
CarriereaÉlie-Abel Carrière (1818–1896)SalicaceaeSt
CarrissoaLuís Wittnich Carrisso (1886–1937)FabaceaeBu
CarroniaWilliam Carron (1821–1876), English and Australian botanist and explorerMenispermaceaeQu
CarruthersiaWilliam Carruthers (1830–1922)ApocynaceaeBu
CarterellaAnnetta Mary Carter (1907–1991)RubiaceaeBu
CarvalhoaManuel Rodriguez de Carvalho (1848–1909); collected plants around 1884 in MozambiqueApocynaceaeBu
CasasiaLuis de Las Casas (1745-1800), colonial administratorRubiaceaeBu
CaseariaJohannes Casearius (1642–1678), Dutch clergyman and missionary with the Dutch East India CompanySalicaceaeQu
CasimirellaCasimir de Candolle (1836–1918)IcacinaceaeBu
CasimiroaCasimiro Gómez, Otomi officer in the Mexican War of IndependenceRutaceaeSt
CasseliaFranz Peter Cassel (1784–1821), German professor of botany and director of the botanical garden in GhentVerbenaceaeBu
CassiniaHenri Cassini (1781–1832)AsteraceaeSt
CastanediaRafael Romero Castañeda (1910–1973), Colombian botanistAsteraceaeBu
CastelaRené Richard Louis Castel (1758–1832)SimaroubaceaeBu
CastellanosiaAlberto Castellanos (1896–1968), Argentinian paleobotanist, university professor of botany in Buenos Aires; specialist in Argentinian cactusCactaceaeBu
CastelliaPietro Castelli (1574–1662)PoaceaeBu
CastelnaviaFrançois-Louis Laporte, comte de Castelnau (1802–1880)PodostemaceaeBu
CastillaJuan Diego del Castillo (1744–1793)MoraceaeBu
CastillejaDomingo Castillejo (died 1786)OrobanchaceaeSt
CastroviejoaSantiago Castroviejo (1946–2009), Spanish professor of science and director of the botanical garden in MadridAsteraceaeBu
CatesbaeaMark Catesby (1683–1749)RubiaceaeSt
CattleyaWilliam Cattley (1788–1835).OrchidaceaeCo
CaulokaempferiaEngelbert Kaempfer (1651–1716)ZingiberaceaeBu
CautleyaProby Cautley (1802–1871), engineerZingiberaceaeCo
CavacoaAlberto Júdice Leote Cavaco (b. 1916), Portuguese professor of botany at the University of LisbonEuphorbiaceaeQu
CavalcantiaPaulo Bezerra Cavalcante (1922–2006), Brazilian botanist at the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi who collected this plantAsteraceaeBu
CavanillesiaAntonio José Cavanilles (1745–1804)MalvaceaeBu
CaveaGeorge H. Cave (1870–1965), English gardener at Kew Gardens and the botanical gardens in Kolkata and Darjeeling, IndiaAsteraceaeBu
CavendishiaWilliam Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire (1790–1858)EricaceaeBu
CayluseaAnne Claude de Caylus (1692–1765), antiquarianResedaceaeBu
CecarriaCedric Errol Carr (1892–1936)LoranthaceaeBu
CerdiaJuan de Dios Vicente de la Cerda, Mexican painter who took part in the first years (1787–1791) of the Spanish Royal Botanical Expedition to New SpainCaryophyllaceaeBu
CervantesiaVicente Cervantes (1755–1829)SantalaceaeBu
CespedesiaJuan María Céspedes (1776–1848), Colombian clergyman and professor of botany in Bogotá; founded the botanical garden thereOchnaceaeQu
CevalliaPedro Cevallos (1760–1840), diplomatLoasaceaeBu
ChadsiaHenry Ducie Chads (1788–1868), naval officerFabaceaeBu
ChaloupkaeaMarek Chaloupka (20th and 21st century), Czech horticulturalist and photographer who worked with the author of the genusCrassulaceaeBu
ChamaesarachaIsidoro Saracha (1733–1803), Spanish monk, apothecary and botanist at the Abbey of Santo Domingo de SilosSolanaceaeBu
ChambeyroniaLéon Chambeyron (1827–1891), French ship commander of a botanical expeditionArecaceaeSt
ChamissoaAdelbert von Chamisso (1781–1838)AmaranthaceaeBu
ChampioniaJohn George Champion (1815–1854)GesneriaceaeBu
ChandrasekharaniaN. Chandrasekharan Nair , Hindi scholarPoaceaeBu
ChangiostyraxHo Tseng Chang (b. 1898), Chinese professor and curator of the herbarium at Sun Yat-sen UniversityStyracaceaeBu
ChangnieniaChang Nien Chen (20th century); worked at the biological research institute at Academia Sinica; collected plants around NanjingOrchidaceaeQu
ChapelieriaLouis Armand Chapelier (1779–1806), French botanist and naturalist who collected plants on MadagascarRubiaceaeBu
ChapmanniaAlvan Wentworth Chapman (1809–1899)FabaceaeBu
ChaptaliaJean-Antoine Chaptal (1756–1832)AsteraceaeBu
ChardiniaJean Chardin (1643–1713), explorerAsteraceaeSt
CharpentieraArsène Charpentier (1781–1818), French apothecary and professor of pharmacology in AntwerpAmaranthaceaeBu
ChasechloaMary Agnes Chase (1869–1963)PoaceaeBu
ChassaliaFrançois de Chazal de la Genesté (1731–1795), French nobleman who settled on Mauritius in 1763 as a planterRubiaceaeBu
ChaubardiaLouis Athanase Chaubard (1781–1854)OrchidaceaeBu
ChaubardiellaOrchidaceaeBu
ChautemsiaAlain Chautems (born inGeneva)GesneriaceaeBu
ChayamaritiaKongkanda Chayamarit (b. 1952), Thai botanist; director of the Queen Sirikit Botanic GardenGesneriaceaeBu
CherleriaJohann Heinrich Cherler (1570–1610), Swiss botanist and court doctor in MontbéliardCaryophyllaceaeQu
ChesneyaFrancis Rawdon Chesney (1789–1872), explorerFabaceaeBu
ChevalierellaAuguste Chevalier (1873–1956)PoaceaeBu
ChevreuliaMichel Eugène Chevreul (1786–1889), chemistAsteraceaeBu
CheynianaGeorge Cheyne (1790–1869) and (wife) Grizzel Cheyne (1797–1871), settlersMyrtaceaeBu
ChiangiodendronFernando Chiang Cabrera (b. 1943), Mexican botanistAchariaceaeBu
ChidlowiaChidlow Vigne (1900–1948), British forester; collected plants in Ghana and MalawiFabaceaeQu
ChieniodendronSung Shu Chien (1883–1965), Chinese director of the botanical institute of the Chinese Academy of SciencesAnnonaceaeBu
ChoisyaJacques Denys Choisy (1799–1859)RutaceaeCo
ChomeliaPierre-Jean-Baptiste Chomel (1671–1740), French botanist and personal physician to Louis XVRubiaceaeQu
ChouxiaPierre Choux (1890–1983), French director of the botanical garden in Caen; professor of botany at the University of MontpellierSapindaceaeBu
ChristiaJohann Ludwig Christ (1739–1813)FabaceaeBu
ChristianaChristen Smith (1785–1816)MalvaceaeBu
ChristianellaChristiane Eva Anderson (b. 1944), American botanistMalpighiaceaeBu
ChristisoniaRobert Christison (1797–1882), doctorOrobanchaceaeBu
ChristoleaMarie Gabriel Jules Christol (1802–1861), French geologist and palaeontologist in Marseilles and MontpellierBrassicaceaeBu
ChuniaWoon Young Chun (1890–1971), Chinese professor of botany at Sun Yat-sen University; director of its Institute of Agricultural and Forestry Botany; later at the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard UniversityHamamelidaceaeBu
ChuniophoenixArecaceaeBu
CiceroniaCicero (106 BC – 43 BC), oratorAsteraceaeBu
CienfuegosiaBernardo de Cienfuegos (1580–1640), Spanish doctor and botanistMalvaceaeQu
CinchonaAna de Osorio (1599–1625), wife of Luis Jerónimo de Cabrera, 4th Count of ChinchónRubiaceaeSt
CischweinfiaCharles Schweinfurth (1890–1970)OrchidaceaeBu
ClappertoniaHugh Clapperton (1788–1827), explorerMalvaceaeBu
ClappiaAsahel Clapp (1792–1862), American botanist in New Albany in IndianaAsteraceaeBu
ClarisiaMiguel Barnades y Claris (1750–1801), Spanish doctor and professor of botany at the botanical garden in Madrid; son of Miguel BarnadesMoraceaeQu
ClarkellaCharles Baron Clarke (1832–1906)RubiaceaeBu
ClarkiaWilliam Clark (1770–1838), explorerOnagraceaeCo
ClausenaPeder Claussøn Friis (1545–1614), historianRutaceaeSt
ClausiaKarl Ernst Claus (1796–1864)BrassicaceaeBu
ClavijaJosé de Viera y Clavijo (1731–1813)PrimulaceaeSt
ClaytoniaJohn Clayton (1694/5–1773)MontiaceaeSt
CleghorniaHugh Cleghorn (1820–1895)ApocynaceaeBu
CleobuliaCleobulus (6th century BC), poetFabaceaeBu
ClermontiaAimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre (1779–1865)CampanulaceaeBu
CleyeraAndreas Cleyer (1634–1697 or 1698)PentaphylacaceaeCo
ClidemiaCleidemus (fifth or fourth century BCE), historianMelastomataceaeBu
CliffortiaGeorge Clifford III (1685–1760)RosaceaeSt
CliftoniaWilliam Clifton (b. 1698), 18th-century American lawyer in GeorgiaCyrillaceaeSt
ClintoniaDeWitt Clinton (1769–1828)LiliaceaeSt
CliviaCharlotte Percy (1787–1866), née Clive, duchessAmaryllidaceaeCo
CloeziaFrançois Stanislas Cloez (1817–1883)MyrtaceaeBu
CloiseliaJ. Cloisel (fl. 1891); collected this plant on Madagascar, in part with George Francis Scott ElliotAsteraceaeBu
ClowesiaJohn Clowes (1777–1846), English clergyman and orchid grower in or near ManchesterOrchidaceaeQu
ClusiaCarolus Clusius (1526–1609)ClusiaceaeBu
ClusiellaCalophyllaceaeBu
ClutiaOutgert Cluyt (1577–1636), Dutch doctor, entomologist and botanist at the botanical garden in LeidenPeraceaeQu
CobaeaBernabé Cobo (1582–1657)PolemoniaceaeCo
CoddiaLeslie Codd (1908–1999)RubiaceaeBu
CoespeletiaJosé Manuel de Ezpeleta, 1st Count of Ezpeleta de Beire (1739–1823)AsteraceaeBu
CogniauxiaAlfred Cogniaux (1841–1916)CucurbitaceaeBu
CoincyaAuguste-Henri de Coincy (1837–1903)BrassicaceaeBu
ColdeniaCadwallader Colden (1688–1776)BoraginaceaeBu
ColeaGalbraith Lowry Cole (1772–1842), army officerBignoniaceaeBu
ColebrookeaHenry Thomas Colebrooke (1765–1837), translatorLamiaceaeBu
ColignoniaJean Nicolas Collignon (1762–?1788)NyctaginaceaeBu
CollaeaLuigi Aloysius Colla (1766–1848)FabaceaeBu
ColletiaPhilibert Collet (1643–1718), French clergyman and teacher, and a fellow of the Royal Society of LondonRhamnaceaeCo
CollinsiaZaccheus Collins (1764–1831), American botanist in PhiladelphiaPlantaginaceaeCo
CollinsoniaPeter Collinson (1694–1768)LamiaceaeSt
CologaniaCólogan family members on Tenerife in the Canary Islands who supported various naturalists and explorers in the 18th and 19th centuriesFabaceaeBu
ColonaChristopher Columbus (1451–1506), explorerMalvaceaeBu
ColquhouniaRobert Colquhoun (1786–1838)LamiaceaeCo
ColumelliaColumella (4 – c.70 AD)ColumelliaceaeBu
ColumneaFabio Colonna (1567–1640)GesneriaceaeCo
ColvilleaCharles Colville (1770–1843), army officerFabaceaeSt
ComberaHarold Frederick Comber (1897–1969)SolanaceaeBu
CommelinaJan (1629–1692), and his nephew Caspar Commelijn (1668–1731)CommelinaceaeCo
CommersoniaPhilibert Commerson (1727–1773)MalvaceaeSt
ComoliaGiuseppe Comolli (1780–1849), Italian professor of agriculture and botanist at the botanical garden in PaviaMelastomataceaeBu
ComoliopsisMelastomataceaeBu
ComparettiaAndrea Comparetti (1745–1801), Italian botanistOrchidaceaeSt
ComptonellaRobert Harold Compton (1886–1979)RutaceaeBu
ComptoniaHenry Compton (1632–1713), bishopMyricaceaeCo
CondaliaAntonio Condal, Spanish doctor and botanist; student of Pehr LöflingRhamnaceaeQu
CondamineaCharles Marie de La Condamine (1701–1774)RubiaceaeBu
ConnelliaFrederick Vavasour McConnell (1868–1914), English biologist (ornithologist); collected plants in Venezuela and GuyanaBromeliaceaeBu
ConradinaSolomon White Conrad (1779–1831), American mineralogist and botanist; later a professor of botany at the University of PennsylvaniaLamiaceaeQu
ConringiaHermann Conring (1606–1681), doctorBrassicaceaeBu
ConsoleaMichelangelo Console (1812–1897), Italian professor of botany at the botanical garden in Palermo; specialist in cactusesCactaceaeQu
ConstanceaLincoln Constance (1909–2001)AsteraceaeBu
ConstantiaConstança Eufrosina Barbosa Rodriguez da Borba Paca (1844–1920), wife and colleague of the Brazilian botanist João Barbosa RodriguesOrchidaceaeQu
ConzattiaCassiano Conzatti (1862–1951)FabaceaeBu
CoperniciaCopernicus (1473– 1543), astronomerArecaceaeSt
CorbichoniaJean Corbichon (14th century), French monk, and a secretary and chaplain of Charles V; translated Bartholomeus Anglicus's encyclopedia into FrenchLophiocarpaceaeBu
CordeauxiaHarry Cordeaux (1870–1943), colonial administratorFabaceaeBu
CordiaEuricius Cordus (1486–1535), and son Valerius Cordus (1515–1544)EhretiaceaeSt
CordieraLouis Cordier (1777–1861)RubiaceaeBu
CornutiaJacques-Philippe Cornut (1606–1651)LamiaceaeBu
CorreaJosé Correia da Serra (1750–1823)RutaceaeCo
CorryocactusThomas Avery Corry (1862–1942), engineer in Peru who discovered these plantsCactaceaeQu
CorsiaBardo Corsi Salviati (1844–1907), Italian nobleman with a large botanical park near FlorenceCorsiaceaeBu
CorsiopsisCorsiaceaeBt
CortiaBonaventura Corti (1729–1813), Italian naturalist and professorApiaceaeQu
CortiellaApiaceaeBu
CosmibuenaFrancisco Antonio Cosme Bueno (1711–1798)RubiaceaeBu
CossiniaJoseph-François Charpentier de Cossigny (1736-1809)SapindaceaeBu
CosteraJan Constantijn Costerus (1849–1938), Dutch teacher and botanist in AmsterdamEricaceaeBu
CotteaGeorg von Cotta (1796–1863), German publisher and diplomat; supporter of sciencePoaceaeBu
CottendorfiaBromeliaceaeBu
CottoniaFrederic Conyers Cotton (1807–1901), British military officer in present-day Chennai; collected plants and grew orchidsOrchidaceaeBu
CoulterellaJohn Merle Coulter (1851–1928)AsteraceaeBu
CoulteriaThomas Coulter (1793–1843)FabaceaeBu
CoulterophytumJohn Merle Coulter (1851–1928)ApiaceaeBu
CoursetiaGeorges Louis Marie Dumont de Courset (1746–1824)FabaceaeBu
CousiniaVictor Cousin (1792–1867), philosopherAsteraceaeBu
CousiniopsisAsteraceaeBu
CoutaportlaMargaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (1715–1785)RubiaceaeBu
CowieaWilliam Cowie (1849–1910), merchantRubiaceaeBu
CrabbeaGeorge Crabbe (1754–1832), poetAcanthaceaeBu
CraibiaWilliam Grant Craib (1882–1933)FabaceaeBu
CraibiodendronEricaceaeBu
CraigiaWilliam Craig (1832–1922)MalvaceaeBu
CrantziaHeinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz (1722–1799)GesneriaceaeBu
CratevaCrateuas (100 BC.)CapparaceaeBu
CratyliaCratylus (mid-late 5th century BCE), philosopherFabaceaeBu
CrawfurdiaJohn Crawfurd (1783–1868), doctor and historianGentianaceaeBu
CremersiaGeorges Cremers (b. 1936), French curator at the herbarium in Cayenne, French GuianaGesneriaceaeBu
CrepinellaFrançois Crépin (1830–1903)AraliaceaeBu
CrescentiaPietro de' Crescenzi (c. 1230/35 – c. 1320)BignoniaceaeSt
CrisciaJorge Víctor Crisci (b. 1945), Argentinian professor of botany at the National University of La PlataAsteraceaeBu
CristoniaMichael Crisp (b. 1950)FabaceaeBu
CritoniaCriton of Heraclea (c. 100 AD)AsteraceaeBu
CritoniadelphusAsteraceaeBu
CritoniellaAsteraceaeBu
CritoniopsisAsteraceaeBu
CroatiellaThomas Croat (b. 1938)AraceaeBu
CroizatiaLéon Croizat (1894–1982)PhyllanthaceaeBu
CroniniaMary Ann Cronin (1871–1974) and her father Michael Cronin (1842–1931), Australian farmers who collected plants between Perth and Albany for Ferdinand von MuellerEricaceaeBu
CronquistianthusArthur Cronquist (1919–1992)AsteraceaeBu
CroomiaHardy Bryan Croom (1797–1837), American lawyer and botanist who wrote about plants around New Bern, North Carolina, and established Goodwood Plantation in FloridaStemonaceaeBu
CroweaJames Crowe (c. 1750 – 1807)RutaceaeSt
CrudiaJohann Wilhelm Crudy (1753 – before 1793), German doctor near Erlangen; worked and collected plants in the Caribbean; sent his plant collection to the author of the genusFabaceaeBu
CruseaWilhelm Cruse (1803–1873), Baltic German doctor, botanist and professor of pharmacology at the University of KönigsbergRubiaceaeQu
CuatrecasanthusJosé Cuatrecasas (1903–1996)AsteraceaeBu
CuatrecasasiellaAsteraceaeBu
CuatresiaSolanaceaeBu
CuenotiaLucien Cuénot (1866–1951)AcanthaceaeBu
CuerveaJosé Romualdo Cuervo Rubiano (1801–1861), Colombian clergyman, naturalist and geographer who maintained his own botanical gardenCelastraceaeBu
CuitlauzinaCuitláhuac (c. 1476–1520), emperorOrchidaceaeBu
CullenWilliam Cullen (1710–1790)FabaceaeBu
CulleniaMalvaceaeBu
CullumiaJohn Cullum, 6th Baronet (1733–1785)AsteraceaeBu
CuminiaUgo Maria Cumino (1762–1808/1812), Italian clergyman and botanist (mycologist)LamiaceaeBu
CunninghamiaJames Cunninghame (d. around 1709), Scottish naturalist and East India Company surgeon, and for Allan CunninghamCupressaceaeQu
CunoniaJohann Christian Cuno (1708–1783)CunoniaceaeBu
CupaniaFrancesco Cupani (1657–1710)SapindaceaeSt
CupaniopsisSapindaceaeBu
CurioGaius Scribonius Curio (c.124–53 BC)AsteraceaeBt
CurtiaKurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (1766–1833)GentianaceaeBu
CurtisiaWilliam Curtis (1746–1799)CurtisiaceaeBu
CusickiellaWilliam Conklin Cusick (1842–1922)BrassicaceaeBu
CussetiaColette Cusset (b. 1944) and her husband Gérard Henri Jean Cusset (1936–2010), French botanists; she was a professor at the National Museum of Natural HistoryPodostemaceaeBu
CussoniaPierre Cusson (1727–1783)AraliaceaeBu
CutandiaVicente Cutanda y Jarauta (1804–1866), Spanish director of the botanical garden in MadridPoaceaeQu
CuttsiaJane (Thorpe) Cutts (1836–1891), English-born Australian who helped search for Ludwig Leichhardt, a German naturalist who disappeared in the OutbackRousseaceaeBu
CuvieraGeorges Cuvier (1769–1832)RubiaceaeBu
CypringleaCyrus Pringle (1838–1911)CyperaceaeBu
CyrillaDomenico Cirillo (1739–1799)CyrillaceaeSt
CyrillopsisIxonanthaceaeBu

See also

Notes

Citations

References

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  • Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, Volume I, A–C. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. pp. 1–700. ISBN 978-0-8493-2675-2.
  • Stearn, William (2002). Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners. London: Cassell. ISBN 978-0-304-36469-5.

Further reading

  • Gledhill, David (2008). The Names of Plants. New York, New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3.