Leonard Plukenet c.1691
Plate from Phytographia

Leonard Plukenet (1641–1706) was an English botanist, Royal Professor of Botany and gardener to Queen Mary.

Biography

Plukenet 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.

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References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Pluk.
  3. ^ 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)
  4. ^ "Phytographia [...] Pars quarta". bibdigital.rjb.csic.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 March 2021.

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