The scientific name commemorates its discoverer, the German explorer Gerd Heinrich.
It was discovered during a 1930 expedition led by Gerd Heinrich.
Heinrich Himmler | Heinrich Heine | Heinrich Schütz | Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi | Heinrich von Kleist | Heinrich Böll | Heinrich Isaac | Heinrich Marschner | Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza | Gerd Müller | Heinrich Mann | Heinrich Hertz | Heinrich Graetz | Heinrich Böll Foundation | Gerd Albrecht | Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters | Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher | Johann Heinrich Lambert | Heinrich von Breymann | Heinrich Finck | Gerd Gigerenzer | Heinrich Zimmer | Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst | Heinrich Wilhelm Dove | Heinrich Wild | Heinrich von Bibra | Heinrich Schenker | Heinrich Nordhoff | Heinrich Leutemann | Heinrich Gustav Magnus |