Species Turraea nilotica

For Giorgio della Torre (Turre, Turra) (1607–1688), professor of botany at the University of Padua and prefect of its gardens. He was the author of Catalogus Plantarum Horti Patavini Novo Incremento Locupletior (The Growth of the New Rich, Patavini Garden Plants) (1660) and Dryadum, Amadryadum Cloridisque Triumphus, Ubi Plantarum Universa Natura Spectatur, Affectiones Expenduntur, Facultates Explicantur (Dryadum, the Triumph of Amadryadum Cloridisque, Where the Whole of the Nature of Plants … Are Explained) (1685).