Which plant genus, Cleyera or Clintonia was named after De Witt Clinton?
Clintonia Clintonia is a genus of flowering plants first described as a genus in 1818. It is distributed across North America and eastern Asia where it is found as an understory plant in woodlands. It was named after De Witt Clinton, an 18th-century botanist and U.S. politician.
Quisumbingia Quisumbingia is a genus of plants in the Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1915. It was initially given the name "Petalonema", but this turned out to be an illegitimate homonym. In other words, someone else had already used the name for a very different species, in this case a cyanobacterium (formerly known as blue-green alga). So another name had to be chosen. It contains only one known species, Quisumbingia merrillii , endemic to the Philippines.