Species Triumfetta benguelensis

For Giovanni Battista Trionfetti (1656–1708), Italian botanist and physician who became a professor of medicine at the University of La Sapienza in Rome in 1680, and director of the Royal Botanical Garden from 1676–1706. Under his administration, the botanical garden became one of the most famous in Europe, and the number of plants, both indigenous and exotic, was considerable. He collected some large herbaria, one of which comprised 13 folio volumes. His book Observationes de Ortu ac Vegetatione Plantarum (1685), published by Dominicus Antonius Hercules, bitterly attacked the view held by Marcello Malpighi (1628–1694), an Italian physician, anatomist and physiologist, that the whole plant is actually in the seed.