Neobenthamia

Rolfe ,in Gard .Chron., ser . 3 ,10 (1891) , 271 , 273, t. 33 .

Polystachyeae .VII.Gr. neos (new ,i.e. , a second genus named for ...), Bentham (personal name) . Honoring Mr. George Bentham ,F.L.S. , F.R.S. (1800-1884), English botanist, who worked on the flora of the Pyrenees , Hong Kong and Australia , " the well-known author of numerous classical botanical works, whose revision of the Orchidaceae for the Genera Plantarum has well been termed ' a masterpiece of research and scientific taxonomy ...' "