Hickenia

Hickenia is the name of two genera of flowering plants, both named after Dr Cristóbal María Hicken:

The second of these, having been published in Britton and Rose's Cactaceae (1922) is an illegitimate homonym of the former, which was published three years earlier in Physis (Buenos Aires) 4: 422.

References

  1. Kew Bulletin 56: 162 (2001)
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