🌵 Author(s) | Nathaniel Lord Britton | 🌵 Published in | Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 35: 561 (1909) |
🌵 Type | Harrisia gracilis |
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.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 Aug 01). Harrisia. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/harrisia