Since the first printing of Carl Linnaeus's Species Plantarum in 1753, plants have been assigned one epithet or name for their species and one name for their genus, a grouping of related species. Thousands of plants have been named for people, including botanists and their colleagues, plant collectors, horticulturists, explorers, rulers, politicians, clerics, doctors, philosophers and scientists. Even before Linnaeus, botanists such as Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Charles Plumier and Pier Antonio Micheli were naming plants for people, sometimes in gratitude for the financial support of their patrons.
Astrid Elise (Wilberg) Schwantes (1887–1960); her connection to the genus is unclear. Married to the German botanist and archeologist Martin Heinrich Gustav Schwantes.
Andrew Berry (1764–1833), English doctor with the Madras Medical Service (now part of the Army Medical Corps) in India; sent plants to the botanical garden in Kolkata
Jean-Baptiste Bobe-Moreau (1761–1849), French doctor and naval pharmacist in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime; published a catalog of the plants in that district, and founded a directory of eponymic plant names
Jonah Boyan (fl. 1952), and Rufas Boyan (fl. 1950–1969), Arawak horticulturalists who worked for the British Guyana Forestry Department and the New York Botanical Garden
Mary Ann Cronin (1871–1974) and her father Michael Cronin (1842–1931), Australian farmers who collected plants between Perth and Albany for Ferdinand von Mueller
Johann Wilhelm Crudy (1753 – before 1793), German doctor near Erlangen; worked and collected plants in the Caribbean; sent his plant collection to the author of the genus