Classification
Kingdom: Plantae (2593)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2490)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2105)
Order: Caryophyllales (105)
Family: Amaranthaceae (15)(family description)
Genus: Froelichia (1)
Epithet: humboldtiana (Schult.) Seub. (1)
humboldtiana => in honor of Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer who travelled extensively in Latin America