The name’s Jamesbondia: new group of Caribbean plants named after James Bond
An article published in Plant Biosystems formally proposes the existence of a new subgenus of plants, Jamesbondia, an infrageneric group of the Neotropical flowering genus known as Alternanthera. It has officially been calledJamesbondia after the notable American ornithologist James Bond, whose name Ian Fleming is known to have used for his eponymous spy series. The four Jamesbondia plant species are mostly found in Central America and the Caribbean Islands. Authors I. Sánchez-del Pino and D. Iamonico have built on the