Leonard Plukenet (1641–1706) was an English botanist, Royal Professor of Botany and gardener to Queen Mary.
Biography
editPlukenet published Phytographia (London, 1691–1696) in four parts in which he described and illustrated rare exotic plants.[1] It is a copiously illustrated work of more than 2 700 figures and is frequently cited in books and papers from the 17th century to the present. He collaborated with John Ray in the second volume of Historia Plantarum (London, 1686–1704). The standard author abbreviation Pluk. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[2]
Paul Dietrich Giseke (1741–1796) compared Plukenet's species with those of Linnaeus in Index Linnaeanus (Hamburg, 1779).
Pluk. mant., refers to the third volume (London, 1700) of the first edition of Historia Plantarum, the whole of which was published 1691–1705.
Works
edit- Phytographia (in Latin). Vol. 1. London. 1691.
- Phytographia (in Latin). Vol. 2. London. 1691.
- Almagestum botanicum (in Latin). London. 1696.
- Amaltheum botanicum (in Latin). London. 1705.
Bibliography
edit- Phytographia, sive Stirpium Illustriorum & minus cognitarum Icones Tabulis Æenis, Summa diligentiâ elaboratœ, pars prior (1690)[3]
- Phytographia, sive Stirpium Illustriorum & minus cognitarum Icones Tabulis Æenis, Summa diligentiâ elaboratœ, pars altera (1691)[3]
- Phytographia, sive Stirpium Illustriorum & minus cognitarum Icones Tabulis Æenis, Summa diligentiâ elaboratœ, pars tertia (1692)[3]
- Phytographia, sive Stirpium Illustriorum & minus cognitarum Icones Tabulis Æenis, Summa diligentiâ elaboratœ, pars quarta (1696)[4]
- Almagestum Botanicum sive Phytographiæ Plukenetianæ Onomasticon Methodo Syntheticâ digestum (1696)[3]
- Almagesti botanici mantissa. Plantarum novissime detectarum ultra millenarium numerum complectens (1700)[3]
- Amaltheum botanicum. stirpium indicarum alterum copiae cornu millenas ad minimum & bis centum diversas species novas & indictas nominatim comprehendens (1705)[3]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Gunn, Mary (1981). Botanical exploration of southern Africa : an illustrated history of early botanical literature on the Cape flora : biographical accounts of the leading plant collectors and their activities in southern Africa from the days of the East India Company until modern times. L. E. W. Codd. Cape Town: Published for the Botanical Research Institute by A.A. Balkema. p. 35. ISBN 0-86961-129-1. OCLC 8591273.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Pluk.
- ^ a b c d e f Stafleu, Frans A. & Cowan, Richard S., Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types, 2nd edn, vol. 4, pp. 300-301 (1983)
- ^ "Phytographia [...] Pars quarta". bibdigital.rjb.csic.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 March 2021.
Further reading
edit- Phytographia, sive stirpium illustriorum et minus cognitarum icones, tabulis aeneis summa diligentia elaboratae, quarum unaquaque titulis descriptoriis ex notis suis propriis et characteristicis desumtis insignita, ab aliis ejusdem sortis facile discriminantur, by Leonard Plukenet, London: 1691–1696.
- Codex Bentingiana, the catalog of the garden of Hans Willem Bentinck was a source for the Phytographia
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