Jaimehintonia is a botanical name, pronounced /hɪntoʊniːə/, that belongs to a flowering plant species in the family Melastomataceae. The word is spelled following the guidelines of the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN), which states that botanical names should be in Latin and follow the rules of scientific nomenclature. The name Jaimehintonia is a combination of the name of the plant's discoverer, Mr. Jaime Hinton, and the suffix "ia," which denotes a genus in the family.