Species Pseudobaeckea africana

For Dr Abraham Baeck (Baekea, Bäck) (1713–1795), Swedish physician, botanist and writer on natural history. He studied medicine at Uppsala University and after he qualified in 1740 travelled for five years 1740–1745, then practised in Stockholm. He became assessor of the Collegium Medicum and president of the Royal College of Medicine. He became physician-in-ordinary to King Frederick I, his successor Adolf Frederick and later Gustav III. He was a keen botanist and claimed that his herbarium was second in size in Sweden only to that of Linnaeus of whom he was a good friend. Pseudo- = false, or resembling Baeckea (or Baekea) a genus in Myrtaceae.