Genus Deroemeria

For Rudolf Benno von Römer (Roemer) of Neumark and Löthain (1803–1870), a German botanist. He is remembered for his massive book collection of 2 600 botanical works going back to the 15th century, which he bequeathed to the University of Leipzig. For some considerable time it was thought this genus was named after Johann Jacob Roemer (1763–1819), German physician, entomologist and professor of botany at the University of Zurich, but Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach’s original description of Deroemera in his publication De Pollinis Orchidearum states ‘Dicavi nobilissimo Do Roemer, Lothainensi ac Neumarkensi …’ Deroemeria is an orthographic variant of Deroemera.