Species Neobakeria rugulosa

La. neo- = new. For John Gilbert Baker (1834–1920), British botanist, botanical collector at the herbarium of Kew Gardens for 33 years, during the last nine years of which he was keeper of the herbarium, Fellow of the Royal and Linnaean societies and a prolific writer. He wrote handbooks on many plant groups, including Amaryllidaceae, Bromeliaceae, Iridaceae, Liliaceae and ferns. His published works include Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles (1877) and Handbook of the Irideae (1892). He was the father of the botanist Edmund Gilbert Baker.