Nouhuysia Explained

Nouhuysia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Clusiaceae. It includes three species endemic to New Guinea.

• Nouhuysia elaeocarpoides
• Nouhuysia novoguineensis
• Nouhuysia pachyphylla

The genus was described by Carl Adolf Georg Lauterbach in 1912, and named after Jan Willem van Nouhuys (1869–1963), a Dutch naval officer and seafarer and director at two museums in Rotterdam who collected plants in New Guinea.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Book: Burkhardt, Lotte . Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition . Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin . 2018 . 978-3-946292-26-5 . pdf . German . Berlin . 10.3372/epolist2018 . 187926901 . January 1, 2021 . See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ for license.