Hofmeistera

Reichenbach fil ., Poll .Orchid .(1852) ,30 .

Ornithocephaleae. III. " I have dedicated the genus to a most friendly and distinguished man, W.Hofmeister, thinking that the plant both by its conspicuous pollen and all the beautiful coil-bearing little cells and the wonderful web of its perigonium exhibiting so many microscopic virtues is properly and appropriately dedicated to Hofmeister , a microscopist .