Systematic Botany, Taxonomy, History of Botany
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A broad overview of the history, publication, author, introduction, rediscovery, distribution, habitats, typification, and relationships of Agave ellemeetiana K.Koch is given. The species was first published by K.Koch in 1865 from... more
Flower: defination, Modified shoot, Parts, Thalamus, Calyx, Corolla, Androecium, Gynoecium, Placentation, Aestivation, Floral Formula & Floral diagram.
The Jamaican herbarium assembled by Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) in 1687 formed a recorded part of his extensive museum collection from the 1730s until its purchase by the British state in 1753. The detailed examination of the organization... more
The authors of this edition propose a novel and inspiring research approach to the subject of plants, which – being a form of life that is different, yet akin to us – is a constant source of nourishment and metaphors, decoration and... more
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Sulla base di ricerche bibliografiche, d'erbario e di campagna, viene presentata una rassegna delle specie di querce caducifoglie presenti in Sicilia. Per ciascuna di esse viene fornita una descrizione morfologica corredata da disegni e... more
Se explica el origen de los nombres de plantas que usa Juan de Jarava, Historia de las yervas y plantas, 1557, versión española abreviada del famoso libro de Leonhart Fuchs, De historia stirpium, Basilea 1542. Muchos de ellos parten de... more
La Basilicata, nel corso del tempo, ha dato i natali a illustri botanici, tra questi sicuramente alcuni hanno avuto più fortuna e notorietà di altri, tanto da aver costruito importanti carriere professionali e di cui è viva la memoria, è... more
Cohniella lacera (Lindl.) Cetzal comb. nova is proposed here and Cohniella stipitata (Lindl.) Christenson is treated as a taxonomic synonym due to priority. Oncidium stipitatum Lindl. was incorrectly cited by various authors as validly... more
in: Stéphane van Damme / Hanna Hodacs / Kenneth Nyberg (eds.): Linnaeus, Natural History, and the Circulation of Knowledge, Oxford 2018 (Voltaire Foundation), 57-79.
Note sur de très rares ouvrages de botanique dans l'oeuvre de Augustus Quirinus Rivinus.
A number of Czech researchers have been devoting their attention to the personality and work of Adam Zalužanský of Zalužany, yet the examination and evaluation of his most interesting work – the botanical treatise Methodi herbariae libri... more
The study about material contained in Barringtonia seeds were conducted for the first time using the standard procedure of AOAC. For present work, two species of Barringtonia were selected viz., B. acutangula and B. racemosa, which are... more
The following points highlight the three main types of fruits. The types are: 1. Simple Fruits 2. Aggregate Fruits 3. Multiple Fruits.
Ophiocaryon nicolasii, from the “Camino de los Andaquíes,” in the Amazonian slope of the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia, Caquetá department, is described and illustrated and its morphological relationships with other similar Ophiocaryon... more
La première partie de cet article est consacrée aux liens entre les sciences naturelles à Genève et la Palestine vers 1860. La seconde partie aborde le rôle des sciences naturelles dans les premières implantations agricoles étrangères en... more
A new species of Zingiberaceae, Curcuma mukhraniae R. Kr. Singh from Western Ghats, Mookambika Wildlife Sanctuary, Udupi Dist., Karnataka, India is described and illustrated.
Muñoz Capilla was an Augustinian friar from Cordoba who, despite his eventful biography, dedicated an important part of his life to studies, among others, in the field of Natural Sciences, creating a herbarium of mainly Andalusian plants... more
The aim of this study was to find why the historical population of Martagon Lilies or Turk’s-cap Lilies Lilium martagon L. is declining at Linnaeus’s Hammarby, Uppland, Sweden. I initially proposed that they were subject to... more
The types are: 1. Simple Fruits 2. Aggregate Fruits 3. Multiple Fruits.
Some historians of biology have pointed out that a major reconfiguration of biology took place around the 1880s but it has so far remained largely unclear what this 'new alignment' consisted in and how it related to the major events of... more
This is an abstract for a paper given on Saturday 8th June 2017 for the British Society of the History of Science annual conference at the University of York. In 1763, the Trustees of the recently opened British Museum appointed the... more
The delocalizing, expropriatory intent behind the Linnaean taxonomical enterprise is well known. Among other things, Linnaeus rejected indigenous plant names in favor of names that decontextualized plants and reinserted them into a... more