Manuel López Figueiras, Cuban-born Venezuelan botanist and lichenologist (Jobabo, Las Tunas 16 June 1915 – Caracas 25 April 2012)

From Spanish parents

DESCRIBED NEW SPECIES

Plantae

Species (with Ruiz Terán)

Libanothamnus griffini 1976

Libanothamnus wurdackii 1976

Paragynoxys cuatrecasasii 1974

Pentacalia mason-halei 1976

Ruilopezia cuatrecasasii 1974

Ruilopezia lopez-palacii 1976

Lichenes

Species (with Mason Hale 1979)

Everniastrum paramense

Hypotrachyna cendensis

Hypotrachyna meridiensis

Hypotrachyna neoflavida

Parmotrema larense

HONORS

Lopezaria Kalb & Hafellner 1990 (Lichenes) 

Ruilopezia Cuatrecasas 1976 (Asteraceae)