Moraea spelling
Peter Taggart (Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:42:34 PST)
was the first version of the name too early to take priority or are all the
books in error?
Peter (UK)
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Crawford Neil <Neil.Crawford@volvo.com>wrote:
The origin of the Moraea name is rather amusing:
The genus Moraea was first described as Morea in honour of the English
botanist Robert More (1703-1780), but Linnaeus later changed the name to
Moraea after the surname of his wife, Elisabeth Moraea and father-in-law,
Johan Moraeus (Goldblatt & Manning 2008).