In 2019 the husband-and-wife team[1] of rock gardening enthusiasts John Michael Watson and Ana Rosa Flores [es; ast] renamed the species to V. wikipedia, after Wikipedia, the free-content online encyclopedia.

[2] Indeed, the name "Viola angustifolia" had been published prior to Philippi's description, in 1824 by the Swiss historian and botanist Frédéric Charles Jean Gingins de la Sarraz, in the famous Prodromus of Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle.

However, this publication cites it as a nomen nudum synonymous to the species Pigea banksiana, which is now known as Hybanthus enneaspermus.

Therefore, Philippi's description is in fact the first valid publication of the name "V. angustifolia", and V. wikipedia is thus a superfluous and illegitimate name.

[3][4] It is closely related to V. acanthophylla, V. bustillosia, and V. cheeseana, the latter being newly described by Watson and Flores.