It means dedicated to John Torrey an American botanist. It is the name of a botanical genus of coniferous plants in the family Cephalotaxaceae ( or Taxaceae ).
Felipe Lorenzo del Río
Genus of coniferous plants in the family cephalotaxaceae originating in East Asia and North America. The name is due to John Torrey, American botanist of the XIX, who studied them.
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