Hildmannia

Hildmannia Kreuz. & Buining, ()
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🌵 Published in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 50: 204 (1941)
🌵 Type Hildmannia ebenacantha
Etymology

Hildmann 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 for German cactus enthusiast Heinrich Hildmann, a founding member of the German Cactus Society. Intended as a new name for Neoporteria excluding the type species Neoporteria subgibbosa (= Eriosyce subgibbosa), Neoporteria chilensis (= Eriosyce chilensis) and Neoporteria nidus (= Eriosyce eriosyzoides).

Bruno Dölz, president of the German Cactus Society, in an article very critical of Kreuzinger (Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 51: 60. 1942): “It must be said, however, that the German Cactus Society does not accept that a person like Kreuzinger, who a few years ago, together with the morally burdened and well-known anti-German [Alberto Vojtěch] Frič, whom he still calls his friend, published a diatribe in which German science and German nature in general were disparaged—that this Kreuzinger names a species in honor of a founder of the German Cactus Society, an upright German man.”


How to cite

Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 Jul 16). Hildmannia. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/Hildmannia

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