Two newly discovered plants of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Aidia livingstonii Karthig et al. and Liparis livingstonii Jayanthi et al. are named in honour of Livingstone for his contributions to plant taxonomy.
Liparis fabricii was first described in 1847 by the Danish zoologist Henrik Nikolai Krøyer.
A name created in 1833 by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque for an Orchidaceae genus, a rejected name now considered synonymous with Liparis