Neobinghamia
Backeb. (1950)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Curt Backeberg |
| 🌵 Type | Neobinghamia climaxantha |
Greek neos ‘new’ + Bingham + 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 Hiram Bingham, director of the 1914-1915 Yale University Expedition to Peru.
This is more or less a replacement name (containing some of the same species) for Binghamia Britton & Rose (1920), which is an illegitimate later homonym of the algae genus Binghamia Farlow ex Agardh (1899).
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 Jul 16). Neobinghamia. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/Neobinghamia