| Name |
Pronunciation |
Meaning |
| heteroclada | het-er-oh-KLAD-uh | differing branches...as in Rhipsalis teres f. heteroclada |
| russellii | ru-sel-ee-eye | Paul George Russell (1889-1963) American botanist with USDA - Rhipsalis russellii named for him |
| Araucaria laubenfelsii | lau-ben-fels-ee-eye | named for David John de Laubenfels (1925-2016), American botanist, an expert on tropical conifers |
| delafuentiana | | Named for Dr. Juan Ramón de la Fuente Ramírez, former chancellor of the Universidad Autónoma de México. |
| leiascheinvariana | | Named for Léia Akcelrad Lerner de Scheinvar, a Brazilian-Mexican botanist. |
| zacatecana | | Of the state of Zacatecas in Mexico. |
| tezontepecana | | Of or from Villa de Tezontepec, Hidalgo, Mexico. |
| chiangiana | | Named for Dr. Fernando Chiang Cabrera, a botanist at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. |
| elizondoana | | Named for the late Jorge L. Elizondo, cactologist at the Universidad Autónoma Agraria Antonio Narro. |
| Hernandia | | Named for Francisco Hernández de Toledo, a Spanish botanist, naturalist, and physician. |
| Lumnitzera | | Named for Stephan Lunmitzer, a German botanist. |
| malangensis | | Of or from the province of Malanje in Angola. |
| benguelensis | Of or from the city of Benguela in Angola | Of or from the province of Benguela in Angola. |
| mweroensis | | Of or from Lake Mweru which is a lake straddling the border between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
| ytiensis | | Of or from the commune of Y Tý in the Bát Xát district of Lào Cai province in Vietnam. |
| galapageium | | Of or from the Galápagos Islands in Ecuador. |
| adoensis | | Of or from Aden, Yemen. |
| uintahensis | 1: Of or from Uintah County, Utah, United States.
2: yoo-in-ta-EN-sis | Of or from the Uinta Mountains of Utah and Wyoming, United States. |
| xishuangbannaensis | | Of or from Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China. |
| medogensis | | Of or from Mêdog County (Metog Rdzong (Tibetan), Mòtuō Xiàn (Chinese)), Tibet (Xizang) Autonomous Region, China. |
| eborispina | eh-BOH-rih-SPEE-nah | ivory-spined |
| regnans | regg-nans | Ruling |
