Genus Philippia

For Rodolfo Amando (Rudolph Amandus) Philippi (1808–1904), German botanist, traveller, botanical explorer and plant collector, professor of natural sciences at the Polytechnic School in Kassel (1834–1850), professor of natural history at the University of Chile, and director of the Museo Nacional de Chile (1853), professor of botany and zoology at Santiago where he directed the National Museum and created the Santiago Botanical Gardens. He published some 453 articles in the fields of palaeontology, entomology, ornithology, marine mammalogy, anthropology and mineralogy and described 3 720 new species from Chile.