Hernando García y Barriga, Colombian botanist (Bogotá 30 November 1913 – 2005)

DESCRIBED PLANT SPECIES

Agrostis boyacensis 1943 with Swallen

Axonopus micay 1960

Carica fructifragrans 1958 with Hernandez Camacho

Gustavia dumitiana 1952

Gustavia romeroi 1975 with Mori

Herrania cuatrecasana 1941

Herrania dugandii 1941

Matisia uribei 1952

Philodendron leyvae 1962

Piper erythroxyloides 1975 with Schultes

Pouteria officinalis 1978

Prunus betancuri 1984 with Schultes

Prunus carolinae 1983

Prunus ernestii 1983

Rapatea circasiana 1954 with Mora

Rapatea muayi 1954 with Mora

Rapatea schultesiana 1954 with Mora

Saurauia anolaimensis 1943 with Schultes

Saurauia putumayonis 1943 with Schultes

Saxofridericia colombiana 1954 with Mora

Sporobolus bogotensis 1943 with Swallen

Urochloa albicoma 1943 with Swallen

Vasconcellea sphaerocarpa 1958 with Hernandez Camacho

HONOURS

Lifetime Achievement Award, Linnean Society of London (1979)

Richard Evans Schultes Award (1974)

Visiting Professor, Harvard University (1967)

Genus Garcibarrigoa Cuatrecasas 1986 (Asteraceae)