This very special and beautiful crocus from Ikaria Island was named after great friend of me from Tasmania, Australia - Marcus Harvey. He was the person who sent me the first seeds of this crocus collected by him on this Greek Island. With the first blooming of it at me, it was clear that it is very different from C. nubigena as it was regarded before and needs proper name. Marcus up to his last year, when he lost the battle with cancer, every season visited Turkey, Balkans etc. collecting seeds for his nursery and always remembered about me, too. So I decided to name this species after him.