List of plant genera named for people (A–C)
Since the first printing of Carl Linnaeus's "Species Plantarum" in 1753, plants have been assigned one epithet or name for their species and one name for their genus, a grouping of related species. Thousands of plant genera (genuses) have been named for people, including botanists and their colleagues, plant collectors, horticulturists, explorers, rulers, politicians, clerics, doctors, philosophers and scientists. Even before Linnaeus, botanists such as Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Charles Plumier and Pier Antonio Micheli were naming plants for people, sometimes in gratitude for the financial support of their patrons . Early works researching the naming of plant genera include an 1810 glossary by and an etymological dictionary in two editions (1853 and 1856) by Georg Christian Wittstein. Modern works include "The Gardener's Botanical" by Ross Bayton, "Index of Eponymic Plant Names" and "Encyclopedia of Eponymic Plant Names" by Lotte Burkhardt, "Plants of the World" by Maarten J. M. Christenhusz (lead author), Michael F. Fay and Mark W. Chase, "The A to Z of Plant Names" by Allan J. Coombes, the four-volume "CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names" by Umberto Quattrocchi, and "Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for  Gardeners" by William T. Stearn; these supply the seed-bearing genera listed in the first column below. Excluded from this list are genus names not accepted (as of January 2021) at "Plants of the World Online", which includes updates to "Plants of the World" (2017). Key. In addition, Burkhardt's "Index" is used as a reference for every row in the table not cited to Stearn.