Barbosella

Schlechter ,in Fedde, Repert. 15 (1918), 259.

Pleurothallideae. II, III. In honor of the Brazilian naturalist , Dr. Joao Barbosa-Rogrigues (1842-1909), explorer of many parts of Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay ; founder in 1883 of a botanical and ethnographical museum in Manios, which he directed until 1889 when he accepted the Directorship of the Jardim Botanico in Rio de janeiro; specialist in the orchids (he described nearly 600 new species and 25 new genera) and the palms ; accomplished artist who drew or painted the plants in the field , publisher of the sumptuous Sertum Palmarum Brasilianarum.