Which plant genus, Cleyera or Clintonia was named after De Witt Clinton?
Cleyera Cleyera is a plant genus consisting of 18 species of tender, evergreen shrubs to small trees, mostly native to Mexico and Central America, and one from Eastern Asia. In the APG III system it is placed in the family Pentaphylacaceae.
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.