Species Grisebachia velleriflora

For August Heinrich Rudolph Grisebach (1814–1879), German botanist, phytogeographer (i.e. a person who studies the geography of plant distribution), professor on the university medical faculty at Göttingen, pioneer in plant systematics, plant collector and taxonomist, Fellow of the Linnaean Society, author of Genera et Species Gentianearum (1838), Die Vegetation der Erde (1872) and Flora of the British West Indian Islands (1864), and director of the Botanical Garden of Göttingen. He followed in the footsteps of his uncle (a professor of botany), explored the island of Cuba, travelled extensively throughout the Balkan region and worked on the botany of South America.