After the Italian academic Antonio Maria Salvini (1633-1729), a professor of the Greek language at Florence who helped his friend the Italian botanist Pier’ Antonio Micheli with his botanical studies
Species
molesta
The only thing I could find about this so far is that molestus is the Latin root meaning “disturbed.” David Hollombe sent me the following: “molesta= troublesome, annoying, unmanageable (taxonomically?, or agriculturally?)”