Species Relhania nordenstamii

For Reverend Richard Relhan (1754–1823), Irish botanist, bryologist, lichenologist and plant collector. He was born in Dublin, educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained an MA degree (1779), and became chaplin of Kings College, Cambridge. While there, he studied and collected plants in the neighbourhood, publishing a book Flora Cantabrigiensis (1785). He became a Fellow of the Royal Society (1787) and one of the founders of the Linnaean Society (1787). Later, he became rector in Lincolnshire and devoted himself to a scholarly study of the works of Tacitus.