Pronouncing Aa

[Andrew]

Thanks for the help. Tindomul, I stuggle to believe that Reichenbach truly wanted to honour the publisher of a book that was published 150 years prior to the date the genus was described and, from what I understand, contained minimal orchid content by naming an orchid after him. It is conceiveable that he did a lot of work finding a remotely relevant person named Aa to justify choosing the name. Botanical descriptions include the etymology of the name. 'Named in honour of Peter van der Aa' gives Reichenbach a bit more credibility than 'named to secure first place in an index'.