Genus Oliverella

For Daniel Oliver (1830–1916), British botanist. He was librarian of the Herbarium at Kew Gardens from 1860–1890 and keeper there from 1864–1890, as well as being professor of botany at University College, London from 1861–1890. He authored Lessons in Elementary Biology (1864) based upon material left in manuscript by John Stevens Henslow (1796–1861), a clergyman, botanist and mentor to Charles Darwin. He was also author of First Book of Indian Botany (1885), Flora of Tropical Africa (1868), Illustrations of the Principal Natural Orders of the Vegetable Kingdom (1874) (with WH Fitch), and other works. He wrote monographs on new genera Hillebrandia (1866) and Begoniella (1873), of the family Begoniaceae. Oliver was a Fellow of the Royal and Linnaean societies.