Hickenia
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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.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of flowering plants, both named after Dr Cristóbal María Hicken:
- Hickenia Lillo, a genus of ApocynaceaeApocynaceaeThe Apocynaceae or dogbane family is a family of flowering plants that includes trees, shrubs, herbs, and lianas.Many species are tall trees found in tropical rainforests, and most are from the tropics and subtropics, but some grow in tropical dry, xeric environments. There are also perennial herbs...
containing one species now reclassified as Morrenia scalae (Hicken) Goyder;
- Hickenia BrittonNathaniel Lord BrittonNathaniel Lord Britton was an American botanist and taxonomist who founded the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, New York. Britton was born in New Dorp in Staten Island, New York...
& RoseJoseph Nelson RoseJoseph Nelson Rose was an American botanist. He was born in Union County, Indiana. His father died serving during the Civil War when Joseph Rose was a young boy. He later graduated from high school in Liberty, Indiana....
, a genus of Cactaceae which included species now classified as ParodiaParodiaParodia is a genus of cacti. This genus has about 50 species, ranging from small globose plants to 1-m tall columnar cacti.It is named after the Argentine botanist Lorenzo Raimundo Parodi .-Synonymy:...
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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.