Geohintonia mexicana

Geohintonia mexicana Glass & W.A.Fitz Maur. (1992)

🌵 Author(s)	Charles Glass Walter Fitz Maurice
🌵 Type of	Geohintonia

Etymology

Mexico + Latin -(ĭ)ānus, adjectival suffix indicating connection, possession or origin. For the occurrence in Mexico. Glass & Fitz Maurice, quoted by Burkhardt (Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen. 2022): “At George’s request [George Sebastián Hinton, who discovered the genus], and with great pleasure, we are naming the species in honor of his country, Mexico.”