Classification
Kingdom: Plantae (2625)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2528)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2137)
Order: Caryophyllales (122)
Family: Amaranthaceae (16)(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