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So, any speculation about the author's motivation for proposing the genus
name Aa remains interesting and, so far, unproven :
1) the genus name being dedicated to Mynheer Pieter van der Aa , printer of
Paul Herman's book, Paradisus Batavus (1698) ;
2) the first and final letters of Altensteinia, the genus from which the
concept Aa was separated ;
3) the author's wish to have the name forever coming first in any botanical
list of genera.
Vieateur, having worked with Reichenbach's herbarium, book, and
publications in general for 30 years, I can tell
you that you safely may assume the (3).
regards
Guido
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Prof. Dr. Guido J. Braem
Naunheimer Str. 17
35633 Lahnau
Deutschland/Germany
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