Classification
Kingdom: Plantae (2715)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)
Class: Liliopsida (397)
Order: Commelinales (22)
Family: Commelinaceae (22)(family description)
Genus: Palisota (1)
Epithet: barteri Hook.f. (1)
barteri => in honor of Charles Barter (died 1859), a British gardener and botanist who trained at Kew Gardens in London from 1849 to 1851