Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Sequoiadendron giganteum" in Portuguese language version.
Whitney states, 'The genus was named in honor of Sequoia or Sequoyah, a Cherokee Indian.'
... the foregoing has shown that the name of the genus Sequoia as a tribute to the Cherokee linguist Sequoyah is an unsubstantiated opinion... Endlicher named the genus for the operation that he had conducted. The new genus fell in sequence with the other four genera in his suborder.