Harrisia

Harrisia Britton (1909)

🌵 Author(s)	Nathaniel Lord Britton
🌵 Published in	Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 35: 561 (1909)
🌵 Type	Harrisia gracilis

Etymology

Harris + Latin -ĭa, the recommended suffix to form plant genus names from personal names that end with a consonant (Rec. 60B.1(b), International Code of Nomenclature). Named “in honor of William Harris, Superintendent of Public Gardens and Plantations of Jamaica, distinguished for his contributions to the knowledge of the flora of that island”.

The illegitimate younger homonym Harrisia Lundbl. (1950) for “a microspore-bearing fructification from the Rhaetic of Scoresby Sound” was replaced by Harrisiothecium Lundbl. (1961). This genus was named for Thomas Maxwell Harris (Burkhardt, Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen. 2022)

Harrisia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 is a genus of tachinid flies.