Both the genus and the species were circumscribed by Dian Xiang Zhang, Richard M.K. Saunders and Chi-Ming Hu in Syst. Bot. vol.24 (3) on page 313 in 1999.[5]
The genus name of Corsiopsis is in honour of Bardo Corsi Salviati (1844–1907), who was an Italian nobleman with a large botanical park near Florence.[6]
References
^Zhang, Dian Xang, Saunders, Richard M. K., & Hu, Chi Ming. 1999. Systematic Botany 24(3): 313–314