Species Buchenroedera lotononoides

For Wilhelm Ludwig von Buchenröder (1783–1841), South African botanist, lieutenant in the Hottentot Light Infantry, and later merchant in the Uitenhage District where he bought two farms. He was a friend of Danish botanical collector and apothecary Christian Friedrich Ecklon and German botanist Carl Ludwig Philipp Zeyher, and the genus was named in 1836 by them.