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Bakerantha is a synonym of:

<- genus Hechtia Klotzsch
(subfam. Hechtioideae)

Publ: Allgemeine Gartenzeitung 3: 401 (1835)

Type: Hechtia stenopetala Klotzsch, Allg. Gartenzeit. 3: 402. 1835.

Number of species: 100

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Genus Notes:

Allg. Gartenzeitung 3: 401. 19 Dec 1835.
Type Hechtia stenopetala Klotzsch, Allg. Gartenzeitung 3: 401. 19 Dec 1835. Currently recognized in the subfam. Pitcairnioideae. Named in honor of German Julius Gottfried Conrad Hecht (1771-1837). “Mag der Name das Andenken des Geheimen Regierungs-Rathes Herrn Julius Hecht, Ritter des rothen Adler-Ordens dritter Klasse, Mitglied mehrerer gelehrten Gefellschaften u. s. w. in Potsdam, dem zu Ehren sie genannt ist, erhalten.” [This name may receive the memory of Privy Government Councilor Mr. Julius Hecht, Knight of the Third Class of the Order of the Red Eagle, member of several learned societies, etc.]
(from Grant & Zijlstra 1998)