Species Bouchea cernua

For Peter Carl (Karl) Bouché (1783–1856) and Peter Friedrich Bouché (1785–1856), German horticulturists and botanists, members of the Bouché family of nurserymen. Peter Carl was a founding member of the Society of Gardeners of the Royal Government of Prussia in 1822 and a student of Carl Willdenow, with whom he went on collecting trips. He also corresponded with other contemporaries in the botanical field such as Carl Sigismund Kunth, Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendahl and Adelbert von Chamisso. Peter Friedrich Bouché was also an entomologist whose collection is in the German Entomological Institute.