Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (Dresden, 3 January 1823 – Hamburg, 6 May 1889) was a botanist and the foremost German orchidologist of the 19th century. His father Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (author of Icones Florae Germanicae et Helveticae) was also a well-known botanist. He had this very strange desire that when ever a plant dictionary is made, the plant name on the top should belong to him. To fulfill his desires, he named an orchid genus as "Aa". This genus is represented by around 35 species distributed from Central America to Northwest Argentina.
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