List of taxa named by Ruiz and Pavón

Hipólito Ruiz López and José Antonio Pavón Jiménez are jointly cited as the authors of many botanical names.

Between 1779 and 1788 these Spanish botanists (together with the French botanist Joseph Dombey) visited Chile, Peru and other South American countries.

Their standard author abbreviations are "Ruiz"[1] and "Pav.

",[2] so that they are now jointly cited as "Ruiz & Pav."

Ruiz and Pavón jointly published: Although Ruiz and Pavón named plant genera after one another, Cavanilles was working independently at about the same time and honoured each of them with the genus names Pavonia Cav.