List of Rubiaceae genera
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Full list of the genera in the Rubiaceae
family. Detailed, up to date information can be found on World Checklist of Rubiaceae. An * before the genus indicates that it is no longer accepted as a valid name.
Rubiaceae
The Rubiaceae is a family of flowering plants, variously called the coffee family, madder family, or bedstraw family. The group contains many commonly known plants, including the economically important coffee , quinine , and gambier , and the horticulturally valuable madder , west indian jasmine ,...
family. Detailed, up to date information can be found on World Checklist of Rubiaceae. An * before the genus indicates that it is no longer accepted as a valid name.
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- *Abramsia Gillespie
- *Acmostigma Raf.
- AcrantheraAcrantheraAcranthera is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It is found from India to South Central China and in Central Malesia.-Species:* Acranthera abbreviata Valeton* Acranthera anamallica Bedd....
Arn. ex Meisn.Carl MeissnerCarl Daniel Friedrich Meissner was a Swiss botanist.Born in Bern, Switzerland on 1 November 1800, he was christened Meisner but later changed the spelling of his name to Meissner. For most of his 40 year career he was Professor of Botany at University of Basel... - AcrobotrysAcrobotrysAcrobotrys is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It was described by Karl Moritz Schumann and Kurt Krause in 1908. The genus contains only one species, i.e. Acrobotrys discolor, which is endemic to Colombia....
K.Schum.Karl Moritz SchumannKarl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...
& K.Krause - AcrosynanthusAcrosynanthusAcrosynanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It is found in the Caribbean.-Species:* Acrosynanthus jamaicensis Howard & Proctor* Acrosynanthus latifolius Standl.* Acrosynanthus minor Urb....
Urb.Ignatz UrbanIgnatz Urban was a German botanist. He is known for his contributions to the flora of the Caribbean and Brazil, and for his work as curator of the Berlin Botanical Garden. Born the son of a brewer, Urban showed an interest in botany as an undergraduate... - AcunaeanthusAcunaeanthusAcunaeanthus is a monospecific genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. The genus contains only one species, i.e. Acunaeanthus tinifolius, which is endemic to Cuba....
Borhidi, Komlodi & Moncada - AdinaAdina (genus)Adina is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. They are shrubs or small trees, indigenous to East Asia.- Description :Adina is a genus of shrubs and small trees. The terminal vegetative buds are inconspicuous and loosely surrounded by the stipules. The stipules are bifid for at least...
Salisb.Richard Anthony SalisburyRichard Anthony Salisbury FRS was a British botanist. While he is remembered as a valuable worker in horticultural and botanical sciences, several bitter disputes caused him to be ostracised by his contemporaries.-Life:... - AdinaucleaAdinaucleaAdinauclea is a monospecific genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It was described by Colin Ernest Ridsdale in 1978. The genus contains only one species, i.e. Adinauclea fagifolia, which is found in Sulawesi and the Moluccas....
Ridsdale - *Aeginetia Cav.Antonio José CavanillesAntonio José Cavanilles was a leading Spanish taxonomic botanist of the 18th century. He named many plants, particularly from Oceania, his name is abbreviated as Cav...
- AfrocanthiumAfrocanthiumAfrocanthium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It consists of deciduous, unarmed, trees, and shrubs. They are native to East Africa, from Sudan and Ethiopia to South Africa.-Taxonomy:...
(Bridson) Lantz & B.Bremer - AgathisanthemumAgathisanthemumAgathisanthemum is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It was described by Johann Friedrich Klotzsch in 1861. It is found in tropical and southern Africa, on the Comoros and in Madagascar.-Species:* Agathisanthemum assimile Bremek....
KlotzschJohann Friedrich KlotzschJohann Friedrich Klotzsch was a German pharmacist and botanist.His principal work was in the field of mycology, with the study and description of many species of mushroom.-Selected works:... - AidiaAidiaAidia is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It was described by João de Loureiro in 1790. It has a wide distribution area and occurs in tropical Africa, tropical and subtropical Asia and the western Pacific.-Species:...
Lour.João de LoureiroJoão de Loureiro was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary, paleontologist, physician and botanist.In 1742 he travelled to Cochinchina, remaining there for 30 years. He became a specialist in Asian flora and on his return published Flora Cochinchinensis .- References :... - AidiopsisAidiopsisAidiopsis is a monospecific genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. The type species was Aidiopsis forbesii but is now included in Aidiopsis orophila. It is found from Thailand to western Malesia....
Tirveng. - AirospermaAirospermaAirosperma is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It was described by Karl Moritz Schumann and Carl Adolf Georg Lauterbach in 1900. It is endemic to New Guinea and Fiji.-Species:* Airosperma fuscum S.Moore...
K.Schum.Karl Moritz SchumannKarl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...
& Lauterb. - *AitchisoniaAitchisoniaAitchisonia was a monospecific genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family but is no longer recognized. It has been sunk into synonymy with Plocama. It held only one species, Aitchisonia rosea....
Hemsl.William Hemsley (botanist)William Botting Hemsley was an English botanist and 1909 Victoria Medal of Honour recipient....
ex Aitch. - AlbertaAlberta (plant genus)Alberta is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. Most species have been transferred to the genus Razafimandimbisonia, except for the type species Alberta magna...
E.Mey.Ernst Heinrich Friedrich MeyerErnst Heinrich Friedrich Meyer was a German botanist and botanical historian. Born in Hanover, he lectured in Göttingen and in 1826 became a professor of botany at the University of Königsberg, as well as Director of the Botanical Garden. His botanical specialty was the Juncaceae, or family of... - AleisanthiaAleisanthiaAleisanthia is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It holds only two species that are endemic to Malaysia.-Species:* Aleisanthia rupestris Ridl.* Aleisanthia sylvatica Ridl....
Ridl.Henry Nicholas RidleyHenry Nicholas Ridley CMG , MA , FRS, FLS, F.R.H.S. was an English botanist and geologist.Born at West Harling Hall, Norfolk, England... - AleisanthiopsisAleisanthiopsisAleisanthiopsis is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It holds only two species that are endemic to Borneo.-Species:* Aleisanthiopsis distantiflora Tange* Aleisanthiopsis multiflora Tange...
Tange - AlibertiaAlibertia (plant genus)Alibertia is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It is found in tropical America.-Species:* Alibertia bertierifolia K.Schum.* Alibertia curviflora K.Schum.* Alibertia duckei Standl.* Alibertia edulis A.Rich...
A.RichAchille RichardAchille Richard was a French botanist and physician .He was son of a notable botanist, Louis-Claude Marie Richard .Pharmacist in the French fleet and member of several well-known societies of their time....
ex DC. - *AllaeophaniaAllaeophaniaAllaeophania was a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family but is no longer recognized. It has been sunk into synonymy with Metabolos....
Thwaites - AlleizettellaAlleizettellaAlleizettella is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It is restricted to southeastern China and northern Vietnam.-Species:* Alleizettella leucocarpa Tirveng.* Alleizettella rubra Pit....
Pit. - *AllenanthusAllenanthusAllenanthus was a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family but is no longer recognized. It has been sunk into synonymy with Machaonia.-Taxonomy:Allenanthus was named by Paul Standley in 1940 in Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden...
Standl.Paul Carpenter StandleyPaul Carpenter Standley was an American botanist.Standley was born in Avalon, Missouri... - AlseisAlseisAlseis is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It was described by Heinrich Wilhelm Schott in 1827. The genus is found from southern Mexico to south tropical America.-Species:* Alseis blackiana Hemsl....
SchottHeinrich Wilhelm SchottHeinrich Wilhelm Schott was an Austrian botanist well known for his extensive work on the aroids .... - AmaiouaAmaiouaAmaioua is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It was described by Jean Baptiste Aublet in 1775. The genus is found from Mexico to tropical America.-Species:* Amaioua brevidentata Steyerm.* Amaioua contracta Standl....
Aubl.Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée AubletJean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet was a French pharmacist, botanist and explorer.Born in Salon-de-Provence, he joined the French East India Company and in 1752 was sent to Mauritius to establish a pharmacy and a botanical garden. He worked there for nine years... - AmaracarpusAmaracarpusAmaracarpus is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It was described by Carl Ludwig Blume in 1826. The genus is found from the Andaman Islands to northern Vanuatu and on the Seychelles.-Species:* Amaracarpus acuminatus S.Moore...
BlumeCarl Ludwig BlumeCharles Ludwig de Blume or Karl Ludwig von Blume was a German-Dutch botanist.He was born at Braunschweig in Germany, but studied at Leiden University and spent his professional life working in the Dutch East Indies and in the Netherlands, where he was Director of the Rijksherbarium at Leiden... - *AmbrariaAmbrariaAmbraria was a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family but is no longer recognized. It has been sunk into synonymy with Nenax....
Heist.Lorenz HeisterLorenz Heister was a German anatomist, surgeon and botanist born in Frankfurt am Main....
ex Fabr. - AmphiasmaAmphiasmaAmphiasma is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It was described by Cornelis Bremekamp in 1952. The genus is found from southern Tanzania to Namibia.-Species:* Amphiasma benguellense Bremek....
Bremek. - AmphidasyaAmphidasyaAmphidasya is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It was described by Paul Carpenter Standley in 1936. The genus is found in central and southern tropical America.-Species:* Amphidasya ambigua Standl....
Standl.Paul Carpenter StandleyPaul Carpenter Standley was an American botanist.Standley was born in Avalon, Missouri... - AmphistemonAmphistemonAmphistemon is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It is described by Inge Groeninckx in 2010 based on a molecular analysis of the Hedyotis-Oldenlandia group...
Groeninckx - *AncylanthosAncylanthosAncylanthos was a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family but is no longer recognized. It was originally described by René Louiche Desfontaines in 1818. In 2005, it was sunk into synonymy with Vangueria, based on a phylogenetic study of DNA sequences....
Desf.René Louiche DesfontainesRené Louiche Desfontaines was a French botanist.Desfontaines was born near Tremblay in Brittany. He attended the Collège de Rennes and in 1773 went to Paris to study medicine. His interest in botany originated from lectures at the Jardin des Plantes given by Louis Guillaume Lemonnier... - *Androtropis R.Br.Robert Brown (botanist)Robert Brown was a Scottish botanist and palaeobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope...
ex Wall.Nathaniel WallichNathaniel Wallich was a surgeon and botanist of Danish origin who worked in India initially in the Danish settlement near Calcutta and later joined the East India Company... - *Angusta J.Ellis
- *Anistelma Raf.
- *Anomanthodia Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
- AntherosteleAntherosteleAntherostele is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It is endemic to the Philippines.-Species:...
Bremek. - *Antherura Lour.João de LoureiroJoão de Loureiro was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary, paleontologist, physician and botanist.In 1742 he travelled to Cochinchina, remaining there for 30 years. He became a specialist in Asian flora and on his return published Flora Cochinchinensis .- References :...
- *AnthocephalusAnthocephalusAnthocephalus was a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family but is no longer recognized. It has been sunk into synonymy with Breonia....
A.Rich.Achille RichardAchille Richard was a French botanist and physician .He was son of a notable botanist, Louis-Claude Marie Richard .Pharmacist in the French fleet and member of several well-known societies of their time.... - AnthorrhizaAnthorrhizaAnthorrhiza is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea.-Species:...
C.R.Huxley & Jebb - AnthospermumAnthospermumAnthospermum is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It is found in Tropical and Southern Africa, Madagascar and in southwestern Arabian Peninsula.-Species:...
L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology... - AntirheaAntirheaAntirhea is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It is found on the Mascarenes, in Tropical and Subtropical Asia and in the South West Pacific.-Species:...
Comm. ex A.Juss.Adrien-Henri de JussieuAdrien-Henri de Jussieu was a French botanist.Born in Paris as the son of botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1824 with a treatise of the plant family Euphorbiaceae. When his father retired in 1826, he succeeded him at the Jardin des Plantes; in... - AorantheAorantheAoranthe is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It is found in Tropical Africa.-Species:...
Somers - *Aparinanthus Fourr.
- *Aparine Guett.
- *Aparinella Fourr.
- AphaenandraAphaenandraAphaenandra is a monospecific genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. The type species was Aphaenandra sumatrana, which received its name from the region it was first collected, but is now included in Aphaenandra uniflora. The genus is found from Indo-China to western Malesia....
Miq.Friedrich Anton Wilhelm MiquelFriedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel was a Dutch botanist.He was head of the botanical gardens at Rotterdam , Amsterdam and Utrecht . He directed the Rijksherbarium at Leiden from 1862... - AphanocarpusAphanocarpusAphanocarpus is a monospecific genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It holds only one species, i.e. Aphanocarpus steyermarkii, which is endemic to Venezuela....
Steyerm.Julian Alfred SteyermarkJulian Alfred Steyermark was an American botanist. His focus was on New World vegetation, and he specialized in the family Rubiaceae.- Life and work :... - *AppunettiaAppunettiaAppunettia was a monospecific genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family but is no longer recognized. It has been sunk into synonymy with Morinda....
R.D.Good - *AppuniaAppuniaAppunia was a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family but is no longer recognized. It has been sunk into synonymy with Morinda....
Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend... - ArachnothryxArachnothryxArachnothryx is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It contains about 105 species. It is found from Mexico to Peru and in Trinidad.-Taxonomy:Arachnothryx was named by Jules Émile Planchon in 1849...
Planch.Jules Émile PlanchonJules Émile Planchon was a French botanist born in Ganges, Hérault.-Biography:After receiving his Doctorate of Science at the University of Montpellier in 1844, he worked for a while at the Royal Botanical Gardens in London, and for a few years was a teacher in Nancy and Ghent... - *ArbulocarpusArbulocarpusArbulocarpus was a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family but is no longer recognized. It has been sunk into synonymy with Spermacoce....
Tennant - ArcytophyllumArcytophyllumArcytophyllum is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It is found from Mexico to western South America.-Species:...
Willd. ex Schult.Josef August SchultesJosef August Schultes 1773-1831 was an Austrian botanist and professor in Vienna. Together with Johann Jacob Roemer, he published the 16th edition of Linnaeus' Systema Vegetabilium. In 1821, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.Father of Julius Hermann...
& Schult.f.Julius Hermann SchultesJulius Hermann Schultes was an Austrian botanist in Vienna. He co-authored volume 7 of the Roemer & Schultes edition of the Systema Vegetabilium with his father Josef August Schultes.-Notes:... - ArgocoffeopsisArgocoffeopsisArgocoffeopsis is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It is found in tropica Africa.-Species:...
Lebrun - ArgostemmaArgostemmaArgostemma is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It can be found in Tropical and Subtropical Asia and in West and West Central Tropical Africa.-Species:The following incomplete list shows some of the species:...
Wall.Nathaniel WallichNathaniel Wallich was a surgeon and botanist of Danish origin who worked in India initially in the Danish settlement near Calcutta and later joined the East India Company... - *AriadneAriadne (plant genus)Ariadne was a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family but is no longer recognized. It has been sunk into synonymy with Mazaea, which is endemic to Cuba....
Urb.Ignatz UrbanIgnatz Urban was a German botanist. He is known for his contributions to the flora of the Caribbean and Brazil, and for his work as curator of the Berlin Botanical Garden. Born the son of a brewer, Urban showed an interest in botany as an undergraduate... - *Asemanthia Ridl.Henry Nicholas RidleyHenry Nicholas Ridley CMG , MA , FRS, FLS, F.R.H.S. was an English botanist and geologist.Born at West Harling Hall, Norfolk, England...
- AsemnanthaAsemnanthaAsemnantha is a monospecific genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. The genus contains only one species, i.e. Asemnantha pubescens, which is found from Mexico to Central America....
Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend... - *AsperaAsperaAspera may refer to:* ASPERA , a Norwegian Melodic Progressive Metal band* Aspera European Astroparticle network, a physics organization* Aspera , an American indie rock band* Ulmus 'Aspera', a kind of elm tree* spera, a 2009 album by Mirah...
MoenchConrad MoenchConrad Moench was a German botanist, sometimes written Konrad Mönch, was Professor of Botany at the Marburg University from 1786 until his death.... - *AsperugaliumAsperugaliumx Asperugalium was a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family but is no longer recognized. It has been sunk into synonymy with x Galiasperula, which is an artificial hybrid of Galium and Asperula....
E.Fourn.Eugène Pierre Nicolas FournierEugène Pierre Nicolas Fournier was a French botanist.He was particularly interested in ferns. He was a member of the Société Royale de Botanique de Belgique.-Works:* Articles in Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France:... - AsperulaAsperulaAsperula is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It contains about 200 species and has a wide distribution area from Europe, northern Africa, temperate and subtropicale Asia to Australasia.-Species:...
L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology... - *Asterophyllum Schimp. & Spenn.
- AstiellaAstiellaAstiella is a monospecific genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It was described by Jovet as a monospecific, herbaceous genus, endemic to Madagascar. The only species, Astiella delicatula, has several peculiar characters: it has only two calyx lobes, uni-ovulate locules, distinctly...
Jovet - AtractocarpusAtractocarpusAtractocarpus is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. Its members are commonly known as native gardenias in Australia. The genus name is derived from the Ancient Greek terms atractos "spindle", and karpos "fruit", from the spindle-shaped fruit of the type species.-Taxonomy:Defined...
Schltr. & K.Krause - AtractogyneAtractogyneAtractogyne is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It is found in western and western-central tropical Africa.-Species:...
Pierre - *Aucubiphyllum Ahlb..
- AugustaAugusta (plant genus)Augusta is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It is found from Mexico to Brazil and in the southwestern Pacific.-Species:...
PohlJohann Baptist Emanuel PohlJohann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician.Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808.... - AulacocalyxAulacocalyxAulacocalyx is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It is found in tropical Africa.-Species:...
Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
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- *Baconia DC.
- BadusaBadusaBadusa is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It is found from the Philippines to the West Pacific.-Species:* Badusa corymbifera A.Gray* Badusa palauensis Valeton* Badusa palawanensis Ridsdale...
A.GrayAsa Gray-References:*Asa Gray. Dictionary of American Biography. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928–1936.*Asa Gray. Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed. 17 Vols. Gale Research, 1998.*Asa Gray. Plant Sciences. 4 vols. Macmillan Reference USA, 2001.... - *Baldingera Dennst.
- BalmeaBalmeaBalmea is a monospecific genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. The genus contains only one species, i.e. Balmea stormae, which is found in El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico. It is locally known as ayuque. The plant is picked for its scarlet flowers, and the whole plant is sold on...
Martinez - *Bancalus Rumph.Georg Eberhard RumphiusGeorg Eberhard Rumphius or originally Rumpf was a German-born botanist employed by the Dutch East India Company in what is now eastern Indonesia, and is best known for his work, Herbarium Amboinense....
ex Kuntze - *Bartlingia Rchb.
- *Bataprine Nieuwl.
- BathysaBathysaBathysa is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It is found from Panama to southern tropical America.-Species:* Bathysa australis K.Schum.* Bathysa bathysoides Delprete...
C.Presl - BatopedinaBatopedinaBatopedina is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It is found from west tropical Africa to Zambia. It was described by Bernard Verdcourt in 1953.-Species:* Batopedina linearifolia Verdc....
Verdc.Bernard VerdcourtBernard Verdcourt was a biologist and taxonomist, most widely known as a botanist and latterly an Honorary Research Fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London. Prior to coming to Kew in 1964, he was associated with the East African Herbarium for 15 years... - *Becheria Ridl.Henry Nicholas RidleyHenry Nicholas Ridley CMG , MA , FRS, FLS, F.R.H.S. was an English botanist and geologist.Born at West Harling Hall, Norfolk, England...
- *Belicea Lundell
- *Belilla Adans.Michel AdansonMichel Adanson was a French naturalist of Scottish descent.Adanson was born at Aix-en-Provence. His family moved to Paris on 1730. After leaving the College Sainte Barbe he was employed in the cabinets of R. A. F. Reaumur and Bernard de Jussieu, as well as in the Jardin des Plantes. At the end of...
- *Bellynkxia Müll.Arg.Johannes Müller ArgoviensisJohannes Müller Argoviensis was the name used by the Swiss botanist Johann Müller . He was the monographer of Resedaceae, Apocynaceae and Euphorbiaceae in A. P. de Candolle's Prodromus and Martius's Flora Brasiliensis. He was also an authority on lichens.-References:...
- BelonophoraBelonophoraBelonophora is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It is found in Tropical Africa. It was described by Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1873.-Species:*Belonophora coffeoides Hook.f.*Belonophora coriacea Hoyle...
Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend... - *Bemsetia Raf.
- BenkaraBenkaraBenkara is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It is found in Tropical and Subtropical Asia. It was described by Michel Adanson in 1763.-Species:* Benkara armigera Ridsdale* Benkara canthioides Benkara is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It is found in Tropical...
Adans.Michel AdansonMichel Adanson was a French naturalist of Scottish descent.Adanson was born at Aix-en-Provence. His family moved to Paris on 1730. After leaving the College Sainte Barbe he was employed in the cabinets of R. A. F. Reaumur and Bernard de Jussieu, as well as in the Jardin des Plantes. At the end of... - BenzoniaBenzonia (plant genus)Benzonia is a monospecific genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It was descripted by Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher in 1827. The genus contains only one species, i.e. Benzonia corymbosa, which is endemic to Guinea....
Schumach.Heinrich Christian Friedrich SchumacherHeinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher , was a Danish surgeon, botanist and professor of anatomy at the University of Copenhagen... - BerghesiaBerghesiaBerghesia is a monospecific genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It was descripted by Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck in 1847. The genus contains only one species, i.e. Berghesia coccinea, which is endemic to Mexico....
NeesChristian Gottfried Daniel Nees von EsenbeckChristian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species... - *Bergkias Sonn.Pierre SonneratPierre Sonnerat was a French naturalist and explorer.Sonnerat was the nephew of the botanist Pierre Poivre. He made several voyages to southeast Asia, visiting the Philippines and Moluccas between 1769 and 1772, and India and China from 1774 to 1781. He was the first person to give a scientific...
- BertieraBertieraBertiera is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It comprises about fifty species, with thirty plus known from tropical Africa, five known from various Indian Ocean islands and five found in the tropics of the Americas...
Aubl.Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée AubletJean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet was a French pharmacist, botanist and explorer.Born in Salon-de-Provence, he joined the French East India Company and in 1752 was sent to Mauritius to establish a pharmacy and a botanical garden. He worked there for nine years... - *Bigelovia Spreng.
- *Bigelowia DC.
- BikkiaBikkiaBikkia is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It is native to eastern Malesia and the western Pacific. The genus was named by Caspar Reinwardt in 1825...
Reinw.Caspar Georg Carl ReinwardtCaspar Georg Carl Reinwardt was a Prussian-born Dutch botanist.Reinwardt was the founder and first director of agriculture of the botanic garden at Bogor in Java...
ex BlumeCarl Ludwig BlumeCharles Ludwig de Blume or Karl Ludwig von Blume was a German-Dutch botanist.He was born at Braunschweig in Germany, but studied at Leiden University and spent his professional life working in the Dutch East Indies and in the Netherlands, where he was Director of the Rijksherbarium at Leiden... - *Blandibractea Wernham
- BlepharidiumBlepharidiumBlepharidium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Central America. Some authors recognize only one species in Blepharidium, but others recognize two. The type species for the genus is Blepharidium guatemalense.Blepharidium was named by Paul Standley in i918...
Standl.Paul Carpenter StandleyPaul Carpenter Standley was an American botanist.Standley was born in Avalon, Missouri... - *Blepharostemma Ridl.Henry Nicholas RidleyHenry Nicholas Ridley CMG , MA , FRS, FLS, F.R.H.S. was an English botanist and geologist.Born at West Harling Hall, Norfolk, England...
- BobeaBobeaBobea is a genus of flowering plants in the coffee family, Rubiaceae. All species in this genus are endemic to Hawaii. . Bobea was named for Jean-Baptiste Bobe-Moreau by Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré in 1830 in his book Voyage de l'Uranie.The wood of Bobea is hard, wearable, and yellow. It was used...
Gaudich.Charles Gaudichaud-BeaupréCharles Gaudichaud-Beaupré was a French botanist.He was born in Angoulême, the son of J-J. Gaudichaud and Rose Gaudichaud. He studied pharmacology at Cognac and Angoulême. He also studied chemistry and herbology.His greatest claim to fame was serving as botanist on a circumglobal expedition from... - BoholiaBoholiaBoholia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It was descripted by Elmer Drew Merrill in 1926. The genus contains only one species, i.e. Boholia nematostylis, which is endemic to Sumatra and the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia and the Philippines....
Merr.Elmer Drew MerrillElmer Drew Merrill was an American botanist, specializing in the flora of the Asia-Pacific region.He was born in East Auburn, Maine, and attended the University of Maine where he received a B.S. in 1898... - *Bonatia Schltr. & K.Krause
- BorojoaBorojoaBorojoa is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It was described by José Cuatrecasas in 1949 and the name is derived from the Emberá word Borojó meaning: boro = head, ne-jo = fruit - head-shaped fruit, or round, globulous fruit. The genus is found in Central and South Tropical...
Cuatrec.José CuatrecasasJosé Cuatrecasas was a botanist. He was born on March 19, 1903 in Camprodon, Catalonia, Spain.His research focused on the high-elevation páramo and sub-páramo regions of the Andes Mountains in South America, especially the flowering plant families Asteraceae and Malpighiaceae.In 1997, the... - *Borreria G.Mey.
- BothriosporaBothriosporaBothriospora is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It was descripted by Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1870. The genus contains only one species, i.e. Bothriospora corymbosa, which is found in southern tropical America....
Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend... - BotryarrhenaBotryarrhenaBotryarrhena is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It was descripted by Adolpho Ducke in 1932. It only holds two species that occur in Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela.-Species:* Botryarrhena pendula Ducke...
DuckeAdolpho DuckeAdolpho Ducke , also referred to as Adolfo Ducke and occasionally mis-spelled "Duque", was a notable entomologist, botanist and ethnographer of Amazonia.... - BouvardiaBouvardiaBouvardia is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It contains about 30 species of evergreen herbs and shrubs native to tropical America. The genus is named in honor of Charles Bouvard , physician to Louis XIII, and superintendent of the Jardin du Roi in Paris.-Description:They grow...
Salisb.Richard Anthony SalisburyRichard Anthony Salisbury FRS was a British botanist. While he is remembered as a valuable worker in horticultural and botanical sciences, several bitter disputes caused him to be ostracised by his contemporaries.-Life:... - BrachytomeBrachytomeBrachytome is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It was descripted by Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1871. It occurs from Assam to south central China and Malaysia.-Species:* Brachytome hainanensis C.Y.Wu ex W.C.Chen...
Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend... - BradeaBradeaBradea is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It was descripted by Paul Carpenter Standley in 1932 and is named after the German botanist Alexander Curt Brade...
Standl.Paul Carpenter StandleyPaul Carpenter Standley was an American botanist.Standley was born in Avalon, Missouri... - BremeriaBremeriaBremeria is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It was described in 2005 to accommodate all the Indian Ocean species formerly placed in Mussaenda, except the widespread Mussaenda arcuata...
Razafim. & Alejandro - BrenaniaBrenaniaBrenania is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It is found from Nigeria to Cameroon, Gabon, Cabinda, Central African Republic, Congo, and D.R.Congo. The genus was described in 1958 and only contained the type species Brenania spathulifolia...
Keay - Breonadia Ridsdale
- BreoniaBreoniaBreonia is a genus of plant of the family Rubiaceae.- Species :Most species are trees, rarely shrubs.*Breonia chinensis - Bur-flower tree, Krathum *Breonia decaryana*Breonia havilandiana*Breonia macrocarpa...
A.RichAchille RichardAchille Richard was a French botanist and physician .He was son of a notable botanist, Louis-Claude Marie Richard .Pharmacist in the French fleet and member of several well-known societies of their time....
ex DC. - BullockiaBullockiaBullockia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It was originally descripted as a subgenus of Canthium. The genus is distributed in eastern and southern Africa and Madagascar in bushland, woodland, savannas, and dry, deciduous forests...
(HiernWilliam Philip HiernWilliam Philip Hiern was a British mathematician and botanist.Hiern attended St. John's College, Cambridge, from 1857 to 1861 and attained a "first class degree" in mathematics...
) Razafim., Lantz & B.Bremer - BurchelliaBurchelliaBurchellia is a genus in the family Rubiaceae, native to the Cape floristic region of southernmost Africa. It contains a single species, Burchellia bubalina, commonly named the "wild pomegranate" or wildegranaat...
R.Br.Robert Brown (botanist)Robert Brown was a Scottish botanist and palaeobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope... - Burttdavya Hoyle
- *Buseria T.Durand
- ByrsophyllumByrsophyllumByrsophyllum is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Byrsophyllum ellipticum, Beddome* Byrsophyllum tetrandrum, Hook.f....
Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
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- *Cafe Adans.Michel AdansonMichel Adanson was a French naturalist of Scottish descent.Adanson was born at Aix-en-Provence. His family moved to Paris on 1730. After leaving the College Sainte Barbe he was employed in the cabinets of R. A. F. Reaumur and Bernard de Jussieu, as well as in the Jardin des Plantes. At the end of...
- *Calanda K.Schum.Karl Moritz SchumannKarl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...
- *Callicocca Schreb.Johann Christian Daniel von SchreberJohann Christian Daniel von Schreber , often styled I.C.D. von Schreber, was a German naturalist.-Career:He was elected Professor of Materia medica at the University of Erlangen in 1769....
- Callipeltis Steven
- CalochoneCalochoneCalochone is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Calochone acuminata, Keay...
Keay - *Calycodendron A.C.Sm.Albert Charles SmithAlbert Charles Smith was an American botanist.-Life:He was a director of the National Museum of Natural History, and chaired several important scientific societies, such as the American Society of Plant Taxonomists....
- Calycophyllum DC.
- Calycosia A.GrayAsa Gray-References:*Asa Gray. Dictionary of American Biography. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928–1936.*Asa Gray. Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed. 17 Vols. Gale Research, 1998.*Asa Gray. Plant Sciences. 4 vols. Macmillan Reference USA, 2001....
- CalycosiphoniaCalycosiphoniaCalycosiphonia is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Calycosiphonia macrochlamys, Robbrecht...
Pierre ex Robbr. - *Camptophytum Pierre ex A.Chev.Auguste Jean Baptiste ChevalierAuguste Jean Baptiste Chevalier was a French botanist, taxonomist, and explorer of tropical Africa, especially of French colonial empire Africa and Côte d'Ivoire. He also explored and collected plants in South America and tropical Asia...
- *Camptopus Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
- CanephoraCanephoraCanephora is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family....
Juss.Antoine Laurent de JussieuAntoine Laurent de Jussieu was a French botanist, notable as the first to propose a natural classification of flowering plants; much of his system remains in use today.-Life:... - *Canthiopsis Seem.Berthold Carl SeemannBerthold Carl Seemann 25 February 1825 Hanover, Germany - 10 October 1871 Nicaragua, Central America, was a German botanist. He travelled widely and collected and described plants from the Pacific and South America....
- CanthiumCanthiumCanthium is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. They are shrubs and small trees. The leaves are deciduous and the stems are usually thorny.-Distribution:They are native to India, Sri Lanka, and tropical East Africa.-Taxonomy:...
Lam.Jean-Baptiste LamarckJean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck , often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist... - Capirona SpruceRichard SpruceRichard Spruce was an English botanist. One of the great Victorian botanical explorers, Spruce spent approximately 15 years exploring the Amazon from the Andes to the mouth, and was one of the first Europeans to visit many of the places where he collected specimens.The plants and objects collected...
- *CaptaincookiaCaptaincookiaCaptaincookia is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Captaincookia margaretae, Hallé...
N.Hallé - *Caquepiria J.F.Gmel.Johann Friedrich GmelinJohann Friedrich Gmelin was a German naturalist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist and malacologist.- Education :Johann Friedrich Gmelin was born as the eldest son of Philipp Friedrich Gmelin in 1748 in Tübingen...
- Carapichea Aubl.Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée AubletJean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet was a French pharmacist, botanist and explorer.Born in Salon-de-Provence, he joined the French East India Company and in 1752 was sent to Mauritius to establish a pharmacy and a botanical garden. He worked there for nine years...
- Carpacoce Sond.Otto Wilhelm SonderOtto Wilhelm Sonder was a German botanist and pharmacist who was a native of Holstein. From 1841 to 1878 he was the proprietor of a pharmacy in Hamburg. In 1846 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Königsberg.He was the author, with William Henry Harvey , of the Flora Capensis...
- CarphaleaCarphaleaCarphalea is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Carphalea kirondron* Carphalea obovata, Verdc....
Juss.Antoine Laurent de JussieuAntoine Laurent de Jussieu was a French botanist, notable as the first to propose a natural classification of flowering plants; much of his system remains in use today.-Life:... - Carterella Terrell
- CasasiaCasasiaCasasia is a flowering plant genus in the family Rubiaceae. These shrubs or small trees occur on the Caribbean islands and in one case in Florida.Some of the ten accepted species were formerly placed elsewhere, e.g...
A.RichAchille RichardAchille Richard was a French botanist and physician .He was son of a notable botanist, Louis-Claude Marie Richard .Pharmacist in the French fleet and member of several well-known societies of their time.... - CatesbaeaCatesbaeaCatesbaea is a genus of flowering plants in the coffee family. There are at least ten species, which occur in the Antilles, The Bahamas, and the Florida Keys.Species include:*Catesbaea melanocarpa - tropical lilythorn...
L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology... - Catunaregam Wolf
- *CephaelisCephaelisCephaelis, also written Cephaëlis, is a genus of plant in the family Rubiaceae.A notable species is Cephaelis peruviana. Many species have been moved to Psychotria....
Sw. - CephalanthusCephalanthusCephalanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the madder family, Rubiaceae. Different authorities accept between six and 15 species, which are commonly known as Buttonbushes. Cephalanthus occidentalis is native to the southeastern United States. The others occur in tropical regions of the...
L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology... - *Cephalina Thonn.Peter ThonningPeter Thonning was a Danish physician and botanist.He was sent to Ghana by the Danish government to supervise the plantations of that colony, and he lived there from 1799 to 1803. His herbarium was destroyed during the shelling of Copenhagen by the British in 1807...
- *Cephalodendron Steyerm.Julian Alfred SteyermarkJulian Alfred Steyermark was an American botanist. His focus was on New World vegetation, and he specialized in the family Rubiaceae.- Life and work :...
- Ceratopyxis Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
- Ceriscoides (Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
) Tirveng. - Ceuthocarpus Aiello
- *Chaenocarpus Neck. ex A.Juss.Adrien-Henri de JussieuAdrien-Henri de Jussieu was a French botanist.Born in Paris as the son of botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1824 with a treatise of the plant family Euphorbiaceae. When his father retired in 1826, he succeeded him at the Jardin des Plantes; in...
- Chaetostachydium Airy ShawHerbert Kenneth Airy ShawHerbert Kenneth Airy Shaw was a notable English botanist and classicist.Airy Shaw was born at The Mount, Grange Road, Woodbridge, Suffolk to a father serving as Second Master at the Woodbridge Grammar School and a mother descended from George Biddell Airy, Astronomer Royal...
- Chalepophyllum Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
- Chamaepentas Bremek.
- Chapelieria A.RichAchille RichardAchille Richard was a French botanist and physician .He was son of a notable botanist, Louis-Claude Marie Richard .Pharmacist in the French fleet and member of several well-known societies of their time....
ex DC. - *Charpentiera Vieill.
- Chassalia Comm. ex Poir.Jean Louis Marie PoiretJean Louis Marie Poiret was a French clergyman, botanist and explorer.From 1785 to 1786 he was sent by Louis XVI to Algeria to study the flora...
- Chazaliella E.M.A.Petit & Verdc.Bernard VerdcourtBernard Verdcourt was a biologist and taxonomist, most widely known as a botanist and latterly an Honorary Research Fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London. Prior to coming to Kew in 1964, he was associated with the East African Herbarium for 15 years...
- *Chenocarpus Neck.
- *Chesnea ScopGiovanni Antonio ScopoliGiovanni Antonio Scopoli was an Italian physician and naturalist.-Biography:...
- Chimarrhis Jacq.Nikolaus Joseph von JacquinNikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin or Baron Nikolaus von Jacquin. was a scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany....
- ChiococcaChiococcaChiococca is a genus of flowering plants in the coffee family, Rubiaceae. It comprises six species. They are native to Florida and the neotropics....
P.BrownePatrick BrownePatrick Browne was an Irish physician and botanist.-Career:Browne was born in Woodstock, County Mayo, sent to relatives on Antigua in 1737 and returned to Europe due to ill health after two years. He studied medicine, natural history and especially botany at Reims, Paris and Leyden, qualifying... - ChioneChione (plant genus)Chione is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. They are native to the neotropics, occurring in most of Mexico, and throughout Central America, the Caribbean, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Typically, they are trees, 10 to 20 meters tall. In harsh habitats, they may be dwarfed and...
DC. - *Chlorochorion Puff & Robbr.
- *Chlorostemma Ridl.Henry Nicholas RidleyHenry Nicholas Ridley CMG , MA , FRS, FLS, F.R.H.S. was an English botanist and geologist.Born at West Harling Hall, Norfolk, England...
- Chomelia Jacq.Nikolaus Joseph von JacquinNikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin or Baron Nikolaus von Jacquin. was a scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany....
- *Choulettia Pomel
- *Chrozorrhiza Ehrh.Jakob Friedrich EhrhartJakob Friedrich Ehrhart was a German botanist, a pupil of Carolus Linnaeus at Uppsala University, and later Director of the Botanical Garden of Hannover, where he produced several major botanical works between 1780–1793...
- *Chytropsia Bremek.
- *Cigarrilla Aiello
- Ciliosemina Antonelli
- CinchonaCinchonaCinchona or Quina is a genus of about 38 species in the family Rubiaceae, native to tropical South America. They are large shrubs or small trees growing 5–15 metres in height with evergreen foliage. The leaves are opposite, rounded to lanceolate and 10–40 cm long. The flowers are white, pink...
L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology... - Cinchonopsis L.Andersson
- Cladoceras Bremek.
- Clarkella Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
- *Clusiophyllea Baill.Henri Ernest BaillonHenri Ernest Baillon was a French botanist and physician. He was born in Calais on November 30, 1827 and died in Paris on July 19, 1895.Baillon spent his professional life as a professor of natural history, and he published numerous works on botany...
- Coccochondra Rauschert
- CoccocypselumCoccocypselumCoccocypselum is a genus of about 35 species of flowering plants in the family , distributed throughout the tropics of the Americas...
P.BrownePatrick BrownePatrick Browne was an Irish physician and botanist.-Career:Browne was born in Woodstock, County Mayo, sent to relatives on Antigua in 1737 and returned to Europe due to ill health after two years. He studied medicine, natural history and especially botany at Reims, Paris and Leyden, qualifying... - *Codaria Kuntze
- *Coddingtonia S.Bowdich
- Coddia Verdc.Bernard VerdcourtBernard Verdcourt was a biologist and taxonomist, most widely known as a botanist and latterly an Honorary Research Fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London. Prior to coming to Kew in 1964, he was associated with the East African Herbarium for 15 years...
- *CodonocalyxCodonocalyxCodonocalyx was a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family but is no longer recognized. It has been sunk into synonymy with Psychotria....
MiersJohn Miers (botanist)John Miers, FRS FLS, knight grand cross of the Order of the Rose, was a British botanist and engineer, best known for his work on the flora of Chile and Argentina....
ex Lindl.John LindleyJohn Lindley FRS was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist.-Early years:Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley was a nurseryman and pomologist and ran a commercial nursery garden... - Coelopyrena Valeton
- Coelospermum BlumeCarl Ludwig BlumeCharles Ludwig de Blume or Karl Ludwig von Blume was a German-Dutch botanist.He was born at Braunschweig in Germany, but studied at Leiden University and spent his professional life working in the Dutch East Indies and in the Netherlands, where he was Director of the Rijksherbarium at Leiden...
- *Cofeanthus A.Chev.Auguste Jean Baptiste ChevalierAuguste Jean Baptiste Chevalier was a French botanist, taxonomist, and explorer of tropical Africa, especially of French colonial empire Africa and Côte d'Ivoire. He also explored and collected plants in South America and tropical Asia...
- CoffeaCoffeaCoffea is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. They are shrubs or small trees native to tropical and southern Africa and tropical Asia. Seeds of several species are the source of the popular beverage coffee. Coffee ranks as one of the world's most valuable and widely traded...
L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology... - Coleactina N.Hallé
- Colletoecema E.M.A.Petit
- *Commitheca Bremek.
- Condaminea DC.
- Conostomium (StapfOtto StapfOtto Stapf FRS was an Austrian born botanist and taxonomist.Stapf trained in Vienna, moving to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1890. He was keeper of the Herbarium from 1909 to 1920...
) Cufod. - *Conotrichia A.RichAchille RichardAchille Richard was a French botanist and physician .He was son of a notable botanist, Louis-Claude Marie Richard .Pharmacist in the French fleet and member of several well-known societies of their time....
- CoprosmaCoprosmaCoprosma is a genus of 108 species that are found in New Zealand , Hawaii , Borneo, Java, New Guinea, islands of the Pacific Ocean to Australia and the Juan Fernández Is. Many species are small shrubs with tiny evergreen leaves, but a few are small trees and have much larger leaves...
J.R.Forst.Johann Reinhold ForsterJohann Reinhold Forster was a German Lutheran pastor and naturalist of partial Scottish descent who made contributions to the early ornithology of Europe and North America...
& G.Forst.Georg ForsterJohann Georg Adam Forster was a German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, and revolutionary. At an early age, he accompanied his father on several scientific expeditions, including James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific... - Coptophyllum Korth.Pieter Willem KorthalsPieter Willem Korthals was a Dutch botanist. Korthals was the official botanist with the Dutch East India Service from 1831 to 1836....
- Coptosapelta Korth.Pieter Willem KorthalsPieter Willem Korthals was a Dutch botanist. Korthals was the official botanist with the Dutch East India Service from 1831 to 1836....
- Corynanthe Welw.Friedrich WelwitschFriedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch was an Austrian explorer and botanist who in Angola discovered the plant Welwitschia mirabilis...
- Coryphothamnus Steyerm.Julian Alfred SteyermarkJulian Alfred Steyermark was an American botanist. His focus was on New World vegetation, and he specialized in the family Rubiaceae.- Life and work :...
- Cosmibuena RuizHipólito Ruiz LópezHipólito Ruiz López , or Hipólito Ruiz, was a Spanish botanist known for researching the floras of Peru and Chile during an expedition under Carlos III from 1777 to 1788...
& Pav.José Antonio Pavón JiménezJosé Antonio Pavón Jiménez or José Antonio Pavón was a Spanish botanist known for researching the flora of Peru and Chile during an expedition under Carlos III from 1777 to 1788... - CosmocalyxCosmocalyxCosmocalyx is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It has only one species, Cosmocalyx spectabilis. It is rare, and endemic to the Mexican states of Quintana Roo and Yucatán.Cosmocalyx was named by Paul Standley in 1930...
Standl.Paul Carpenter StandleyPaul Carpenter Standley was an American botanist.Standley was born in Avalon, Missouri... - *Coupoui Aubl.Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée AubletJean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet was a French pharmacist, botanist and explorer.Born in Salon-de-Provence, he joined the French East India Company and in 1752 was sent to Mauritius to establish a pharmacy and a botanical garden. He worked there for nine years...
- *Coursiana Homolle
- Coussarea Aubl.Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée AubletJean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet was a French pharmacist, botanist and explorer.Born in Salon-de-Provence, he joined the French East India Company and in 1752 was sent to Mauritius to establish a pharmacy and a botanical garden. He worked there for nine years...
- Coutaportla Urb.Ignatz UrbanIgnatz Urban was a German botanist. He is known for his contributions to the flora of the Caribbean and Brazil, and for his work as curator of the Berlin Botanical Garden. Born the son of a brewer, Urban showed an interest in botany as an undergraduate...
- Coutarea Aubl.Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée AubletJean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet was a French pharmacist, botanist and explorer.Born in Salon-de-Provence, he joined the French East India Company and in 1752 was sent to Mauritius to establish a pharmacy and a botanical garden. He worked there for nine years...
- *Covolia Nick.
- Cowiea Wernham
- Craterispermum Benth.George BenthamGeorge Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
- Cremaspora Benth.George BenthamGeorge Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
- Cremocarpon Boivin ex Baill.Henri Ernest BaillonHenri Ernest Baillon was a French botanist and physician. He was born in Calais on November 30, 1827 and died in Paris on July 19, 1895.Baillon spent his professional life as a professor of natural history, and he published numerous works on botany...
- *Crinita Houtt.
- Crobylanthe Bremek.
- *CrocyllisCrocyllisCrocyllis was a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family but is no longer recognized. It has been sunk into synonymy with Plocama....
E.Mey.Ernst Heinrich Friedrich MeyerErnst Heinrich Friedrich Meyer was a German botanist and botanical historian. Born in Hanover, he lectured in Göttingen and in 1826 became a professor of botany at the University of Königsberg, as well as Director of the Botanical Garden. His botanical specialty was the Juncaceae, or family of...
ex Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend... - Crossopteryx FenzlEduard FenzlEduard Fenzl was an Austrian botanist.An obituary notes "[h]e was Professor of Botany and Director of the Imperial Botanical Cabinet, a member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences, and Vice-President of the Vienna Horticultural Society."...
- CrucianellaCrucianellaCrucianella is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. The species are annuals herbs found from the Mediterranean to Central Asia and the Arabian Peninsula.-Species:*Crucianella aegyptiaca L....
L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology... - Cruciata Mill.Philip MillerPhilip Miller FRS was a Scottish botanist.Miller was chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden from 1722 until he was pressured to retire shortly before his death...
- Cruckshanksia Hook.William Jackson HookerSir William Jackson Hooker, FRS was an English systematic botanist and organiser. He held the post of Regius Professor of Botany at Glasgow University, and was the first Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He enjoyed the friendship and support of Sir Joseph Banks for his exploring,...
& Arn. - Crusea Schltdl.Diederich Franz Leonhard von SchlechtendalDiederich von Schlechtendal was a German botanist born in Xanten. He was Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Gardens at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1833 until his death in 1866, and Editor of the botanical journal Linnaea.His most important work was in...
& Cham.Adelbert von ChamissoAdelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family... - *Cuatrecasasiodendron Steyerm.Julian Alfred SteyermarkJulian Alfred Steyermark was an American botanist. His focus was on New World vegetation, and he specialized in the family Rubiaceae.- Life and work :...
- Cubanola Aiello
- *Cupi Adans.Michel AdansonMichel Adanson was a French naturalist of Scottish descent.Adanson was born at Aix-en-Provence. His family moved to Paris on 1730. After leaving the College Sainte Barbe he was employed in the cabinets of R. A. F. Reaumur and Bernard de Jussieu, as well as in the Jardin des Plantes. At the end of...
- *Cupia (Schult.Josef August SchultesJosef August Schultes 1773-1831 was an Austrian botanist and professor in Vienna. Together with Johann Jacob Roemer, he published the 16th edition of Linnaeus' Systema Vegetabilium. In 1821, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.Father of Julius Hermann...
) DC. - CuvieraCuvieraCuviera is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It was originally described by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in 1807 and is named after the french naturalist Georges Cuvier.-Taxonomy:...
DC. - CyclophyllumCyclophyllumCyclophyllum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It is found from New Guinea to the Pacific.-Species:* Cyclophyllum baladense Guillaumin* Cyclophyllum balansae Guillaumin...
Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend... - *Cynanchica Fourr.
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- Damnacanthus C.F.Gaertn.
- Danais Comm. ex Vent.Étienne Pierre VentenatÉtienne Pierre Ventenat was a French botanist born in Limoges. He was the brother of naturalist Louis Ventenat ....
- *Dasycephala (DC.) Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
- *Decameria Welw.Friedrich WelwitschFriedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch was an Austrian explorer and botanist who in Angola discovered the plant Welwitschia mirabilis...
- Deccania Tirveng.
- Declieuxia KunthCarl Sigismund KunthCarl Sigismund Kunth , also Karl Sigismund Kunth or anglicized as Charles Sigismund Kunth, was a German botanist...
- *Delpechia Montrouz.Jean Xavier Hyacinthe MontrouzierReverendus Pater Jean Xavier Hyacinthe Montrouzier was a French Marist priest, explorer, botanist, zoologist and entomologist.Abbé Montrouzier studied the flora and fauna of Melanesia especially New Caledonia.-Works:...
- Dendrosipanea DuckeAdolpho DuckeAdolpho Ducke , also referred to as Adolfo Ducke and occasionally mis-spelled "Duque", was a notable entomologist, botanist and ethnographer of Amazonia....
- Dentella J.R.Forst.Johann Reinhold ForsterJohann Reinhold Forster was a German Lutheran pastor and naturalist of partial Scottish descent who made contributions to the early ornithology of Europe and North America...
& G.Forst.Georg ForsterJohann Georg Adam Forster was a German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, and revolutionary. At an early age, he accompanied his father on several scientific expeditions, including James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific... - Deppea Schltdl.Diederich Franz Leonhard von SchlechtendalDiederich von Schlechtendal was a German botanist born in Xanten. He was Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Gardens at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1833 until his death in 1866, and Editor of the botanical journal Linnaea.His most important work was in...
& Cham.Adelbert von ChamissoAdelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family... - Diacrodon Sprague
- Dialypetalanthus Kuhlm.João Geraldo KuhlmannJoão Geraldo Kuhlmann was aBrazilian botanist.Kuhlmann was a specialist on Taxonomy of Angiosperms...
- Dibrachionostylus Bremek.
- Dichilanthe Thwaites
- *Dichrospermum Bremek.
- Dictyandra Welw.Friedrich WelwitschFriedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch was an Austrian explorer and botanist who in Angola discovered the plant Welwitschia mirabilis...
ex Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend... - Didymaea Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
- Didymochlamys Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
- *Didymoecium Bremek.
- Didymopogon Bremek.
- Didymosalpinx Keay
- *Dinocanthium Bremek.
- Diodella SmallJohn Kunkel SmallJohn Kunkel Small was an American botanist.He was the first Curator of Museums at The New York Botanical Garden, a post in which he served from 1898 until 1906. From 1906 to 1934 he was Head Curator and then from 1934 until his death he was Chief Research Associate and Curator...
- Diodia L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...
- *Dioidioides Loefl.
- Dioecrescis Tirveng.
- Dioicodendron Steyerm.Julian Alfred SteyermarkJulian Alfred Steyermark was an American botanist. His focus was on New World vegetation, and he specialized in the family Rubiaceae.- Life and work :...
- *DiplophragmaDiplophragmaDiplophragma was a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family but is no longer recognized. It has been sunk into synonymy with Hedyotis....
(WightRobert WightRobert Wight was a Scottish surgeon and botanist who spent 30 years in India. He studied botany in Edinburgh under John Hope. He was the director of the Botanic Garden in Madras. He made use of local artists to make illustrations of the plants around him...
& Arn.) Meisn.Carl MeissnerCarl Daniel Friedrich Meissner was a Swiss botanist.Born in Bern, Switzerland on 1 November 1800, he was christened Meisner but later changed the spelling of his name to Meissner. For most of his 40 year career he was Professor of Botany at University of Basel... - Diplospora DC.
- Discospermum Dalzell
- Diyaminauclea Ridsdale
- Dolichodelphys K.Schum.Karl Moritz SchumannKarl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...
& K.Krause - Dolicholobium A.GrayAsa Gray-References:*Asa Gray. Dictionary of American Biography. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928–1936.*Asa Gray. Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed. 17 Vols. Gale Research, 1998.*Asa Gray. Plant Sciences. 4 vols. Macmillan Reference USA, 2001....
- Dolichometra K.Schum.Karl Moritz SchumannKarl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...
- *DondisiaDondisiaDondisia was a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family but is no longer recognized. It has been sunk into synonymy with Canthium. It was originally described by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in 1830.-Former species:...
DC. - *Doricera Verdc.Bernard VerdcourtBernard Verdcourt was a biologist and taxonomist, most widely known as a botanist and latterly an Honorary Research Fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London. Prior to coming to Kew in 1964, he was associated with the East African Herbarium for 15 years...
- *Douarrea Montrouz.Jean Xavier Hyacinthe MontrouzierReverendus Pater Jean Xavier Hyacinthe Montrouzier was a French Marist priest, explorer, botanist, zoologist and entomologist.Abbé Montrouzier studied the flora and fauna of Melanesia especially New Caledonia.-Works:...
- Duidania Standl.Paul Carpenter StandleyPaul Carpenter Standley was an American botanist.Standley was born in Avalon, Missouri...
- Dunnia Tutcher
- Duperrea Pierre ex Pit.
- DuroiaDuroiaDuroia is a genus of some 37 species of shrubs or canopy trees in the family Rubiaceae, favouring ants , and occurring in Central America as far north as Mexico, the Amazon Basin, the Guiana Shield, the Brazilian Atlantic coast and planalto.A number of Duroia species, and possibly all, are capable...
L.f.Carolus Linnaeus the YoungerCarl Linnaeus the Younger, Carl von Linné or Carolus Linnaeus the Younger was a Swedish naturalist... - Durringtonia R.J.F.Hend. & Guymer
- *Duvaucellia Bowdich
- *Dychotria Raf.
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- *Ecpoma K.Schum.Karl Moritz SchumannKarl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...
- *Ehrenbergia Spreng.
- Eizia Standl.Paul Carpenter StandleyPaul Carpenter Standley was an American botanist.Standley was born in Avalon, Missouri...
- Elaeagia Wedd.Hugh Algernon WeddellHugh Algernon Weddell was a physician and botanist, specialising in South American flora.Weddell was born at Birches House, Painswick near Gloucester, England but was raised in France and educated at the Lycée Henri IV, where he received a medical degree in 1841...
- Eleuthranthes F.Muell.Ferdinand von MuellerBaron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, KCMG was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist.-Early life:...
ex Benth.George BenthamGeorge Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :... - Emmenopterys Oliv.Daniel OliverDaniel Oliver, FRS was a British botanist.He was Librarian of the Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 1860–1890 and Keeper there from 1864–1890, and Professor of Botany at University College, London from 1861–1888....
- Emmeorhiza PohlJohann Baptist Emanuel PohlJohann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician.Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808....
ex Endl. - Eosanthe Urb.Ignatz UrbanIgnatz Urban was a German botanist. He is known for his contributions to the flora of the Caribbean and Brazil, and for his work as curator of the Berlin Botanical Garden. Born the son of a brewer, Urban showed an interest in botany as an undergraduate...
- EriosemopsisEriosemopsisEriosemopsis is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It was descripted by Walter Robyns in 1928 and no changes have been made since then. The genus contains only one species, i.e. Eriosemopsis subanisophylla, which is endemic to South Africa...
RobynsFrans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter RobynsFrans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns, known as Walter Robyns, was a Belgian botanist.After two long stays in Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, travels in central Africa and taxonomic work on many groups of tropical African plants, amongst others Rubiaceae, grasses and legumes, he became director of... - ErithalisErithalisErithalis is a genus of flowering plants in the coffee family, Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Erithalis harrisii Urb.* Erithalis quadrangularis Krug & Urb....
P.BrownePatrick BrownePatrick Browne was an Irish physician and botanist.-Career:Browne was born in Woodstock, County Mayo, sent to relatives on Antigua in 1737 and returned to Europe due to ill health after two years. He studied medicine, natural history and especially botany at Reims, Paris and Leyden, qualifying... - ErnodeaErnodeaErnodea is a genus of flowering plants in the coffee family, Rubiaceae. All are small shrubs, endemic to the Caribbean region, with most species restricted to the Bahamian Archipelago...
Sw. - Eteriscius Desv.Nicaise Auguste Desvaux-Works:*Journal de Botanique, appliquée à l'Agriculture, à la Pharmacie, à la Médecine et aux Arts .*Observations sur les plantes des environs d'Angers ....
- Euclinia Salisb.Richard Anthony SalisburyRichard Anthony Salisbury FRS was a British botanist. While he is remembered as a valuable worker in horticultural and botanical sciences, several bitter disputes caused him to be ostracised by his contemporaries.-Life:...
- *Eumachia DC.
- *Eumorphanthus A.C.Sm.Albert Charles SmithAlbert Charles Smith was an American botanist.-Life:He was a director of the National Museum of Natural History, and chaired several important scientific societies, such as the American Society of Plant Taxonomists....
- *Eurhotia Neck.
- EveristiaEveristiaEveristia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. The genus contains only one species, i.e. Everistia vacciniifolia, which is endemic to nordeastern Australia....
(F.Muell.Ferdinand von MuellerBaron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, KCMG was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist.-Early life:...
) S.T.Reynolds & R.J.F.Hend. - *Exallage Bremek.
- *Exechostylus K.Schum.Karl Moritz SchumannKarl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...
- ExostemaExostemaExostema is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It consists of trees and shrubs, endemic to the neotropics, with most of the species occurring in the West Indies. Estimates of the number of species range from 25 to 44....
(Pers.) Rich. ex Humb. & Bonpl. - *Eyselia Neck.
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- FadogiaFadogiaFadogia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genera Rytigynia and Fadogia form a strongly supported clade but neither of these genera is monophyletic.-Species:* Fadogia ancylantha Schweinf....
Schweinf.Georg August SchweinfurthGeorg August Schweinfurth was a Baltic German botanist, traveller in East Central Africa and ethnologist.... - FadogiellaFadogiellaFadogiella is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It was descripted by Walter Robyns in 1928. This genus is morphologically similar to Fadogia and is related to the latter genus...
RobynsFrans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter RobynsFrans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns, known as Walter Robyns, was a Belgian botanist.After two long stays in Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, travels in central Africa and taxonomic work on many groups of tropical African plants, amongst others Rubiaceae, grasses and legumes, he became director of... - *Fagerlindia Tirveng.
- FarameaFarameaFaramea is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae.Species include:* F. angusta C. M. Taylor* F. biflora J. G. Jardim & Zappi* F. capillipes* F. exemplaris Standl.* F. hymenocalyx M. Gomes* F. nocturna J. G. Jardim & Zappi...
Aubl.Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée AubletJean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet was a French pharmacist, botanist and explorer.Born in Salon-de-Provence, he joined the French East India Company and in 1752 was sent to Mauritius to establish a pharmacy and a botanical garden. He worked there for nine years... - Ferdinandusa PohlJohann Baptist Emanuel PohlJohann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician.Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808....
- Feretia DelileAlire Raffeneau DelileAlire Raffeneau Delile was a French botanist.-Biography:He studied botany with Jean Lemonnier, and was in the Paris medical school in 1796.-Egypt:...
- Fergusonia Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
- Fernelia Comm. ex Lam.Jean-Baptiste LamarckJean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck , often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist...
- Flagenium Baill.Henri Ernest BaillonHenri Ernest Baillon was a French botanist and physician. He was born in Calais on November 30, 1827 and died in Paris on July 19, 1895.Baillon spent his professional life as a professor of natural history, and he published numerous works on botany...
- *FlemingiaFlemingiaFlemingia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the sub family Faboideae....
Hunter ex Ridl.Henry Nicholas RidleyHenry Nicholas Ridley CMG , MA , FRS, FLS, F.R.H.S. was an English botanist and geologist.Born at West Harling Hall, Norfolk, England... - Flexanthera Rusby
- *Franciella GuillauminAndré GuillauminAndré Louis Joseph Edmond Armand Guillaumin is a French botanist who was born on 21 June 1885 in Arrou and died on 29 May 1974 in Athis-Mons. He obtained his license in natural sciences in 1906 and began work in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris in 1909 as a preparer...
- *Furcatella Baum.-Bod.
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- GaertneraGaertneraGaertnera is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae.Species include:* Gaertnera hirtiflora, Verdc.* Gaertnera longifolia, Bojer* Gaertnera rosea, Thwaites ex Benth.* Gaertnera ternifolia, Thwaites* Gaertnera truncata, A.DC...
Lam.Jean-Baptiste LamarckJean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck , often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist... - *GailloniaGailloniaGaillonia was a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family but is no longer recognized. It has been sunk into synonymy with Plocama....
A.Rich.Achille RichardAchille Richard was a French botanist and physician .He was son of a notable botanist, Louis-Claude Marie Richard .Pharmacist in the French fleet and member of several well-known societies of their time....
ex DC. - Galianthe Griseb.
- Galiasperula Ronniger
- Galiniera DelileAlire Raffeneau DelileAlire Raffeneau Delile was a French botanist.-Biography:He studied botany with Jean Lemonnier, and was in the Paris medical school in 1796.-Egypt:...
- *GalionGalionGalion was a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family but is no longer recognized. It has been sunk into synonymy with Galium....
St.-Lag. - *Galiopsis St.-Lag.
- GaliumGaliumGalium is a large genus of annual and perennial herbaceous plants in the family Rubiaceae, with 617 known species occurring in the temperate zones of both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Most species are known as bedstraw. G...
L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology... - Gallienia Dubard & Dop
- *Gallion PohlJohann Baptist Emanuel PohlJohann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician.Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808....
- *GalliumGalliumGallium is a chemical element that has the symbol Ga and atomic number 31. Elemental gallium does not occur in nature, but as the gallium salt in trace amounts in bauxite and zinc ores. A soft silvery metallic poor metal, elemental gallium is a brittle solid at low temperatures. As it liquefies...
Mill.Philip MillerPhilip Miller FRS was a Scottish botanist.Miller was chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden from 1722 until he was pressured to retire shortly before his death... - Galopina Thunb.Carl Peter ThunbergCarl Peter Thunberg aka Carl Pehr Thunberg aka Carl Per Thunberg was a Swedish naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. He has been called "the father of South African botany" and the "Japanese Linnaeus"....
- *Galvania Vand.Domenico VandelliDomenico Agostino Vandelli was an Italian naturalist, who did most of his scientific work in Portugal....
- *Gamotopea Bremek.
- *Garapatica H.Karst.Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann KarstenGustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten was a German botanist and geologist. Born in Stralsund, he followed the example of Alexander von Humboldt and traveled 1844-56 to the north of South America. He died 1908 in Berlin-Grunewald....
- GardeniaGardeniaGardenia is a genus of 142 species of flowering plants in the coffee family, Rubiaceae, native to the tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, southern Asia, Australasia and Oceania....
J.EllisJohn Ellis (naturalist)John Ellis FRS was a British linen merchant and naturalist.Ellis specialised in the study of corals. He was elected a member of the Royal Society in 1754 and in the following year published An essay towards the Natural History of the Corallines. He was awarded the Copley Medal in 1767... - *Gardeniola Cham.Adelbert von ChamissoAdelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...
- Gardeniopsis Miq.Friedrich Anton Wilhelm MiquelFriedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel was a Dutch botanist.He was head of the botanical gardens at Rotterdam , Amsterdam and Utrecht . He directed the Rijksherbarium at Leiden from 1862...
- GenipaGenipaThe genip-trees , are a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. This genus is closely allied to Gardenia; several Gardenia species were originally placed in Genipa. It is not to be confused with genip , a completely unrelated eudicot. The name is derived from genipapo, the Guianan name...
L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology... - *Genipella Rich. ex DC.
- Gentingia J.T.Johanss. & K.M.Wong
- Geophila D.DonDavid DonDavid Don was a Scottish botanist,David Don was born on December 21, 1799, at Doo Hillock, Forfar, Angus, Scotland. He was the younger brother of George Don, also a botanist, their father being George Don of Forfar and his wife Caroline Clementina Stuart...
- Gillespiea A.C.Sm.Albert Charles SmithAlbert Charles Smith was an American botanist.-Life:He was a director of the National Museum of Natural History, and chaired several important scientific societies, such as the American Society of Plant Taxonomists....
- Gleasonia Standl.Paul Carpenter StandleyPaul Carpenter Standley was an American botanist.Standley was born in Avalon, Missouri...
- GlionnetiaGlionnetiaGlionnetia is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Glionnetia sericea, Tirv....
Tirveng. - *GlobulostylisGlobulostylisGlobulostylis was a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family but is no longer recognized. It has been sunk into synonymy with Cuviera.-Taxonomy:...
Wernham - Glossostipula Lorence
- Gomphocalyx BakerJohn Gilbert BakerJohn Gilbert Baker was an English botanist.Baker was born in Guisborough, the son of John and Mary Baker and educated at Quaker schools in Ackworth and York....
- *Gonyanera Korth.Pieter Willem KorthalsPieter Willem Korthals was a Dutch botanist. Korthals was the official botanist with the Dutch East India Service from 1831 to 1836....
- GonzalaguniaGonzalaguniaGonzalagunia is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. Species include:* Gonzalagunia bifida* Gonzalagunia dodsonii* Gonzalagunia mollis* Gonzalagunia pauciflora* Gonzalagunia rosea...
RuizHipólito Ruiz LópezHipólito Ruiz López , or Hipólito Ruiz, was a Spanish botanist known for researching the floras of Peru and Chile during an expedition under Carlos III from 1777 to 1788...
& Pav.José Antonio Pavón JiménezJosé Antonio Pavón Jiménez or José Antonio Pavón was a Spanish botanist known for researching the flora of Peru and Chile during an expedition under Carlos III from 1777 to 1788... - *Gouldia A.GrayAsa Gray-References:*Asa Gray. Dictionary of American Biography. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928–1936.*Asa Gray. Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed. 17 Vols. Gale Research, 1998.*Asa Gray. Plant Sciences. 4 vols. Macmillan Reference USA, 2001....
- Greenea WightRobert WightRobert Wight was a Scottish surgeon and botanist who spent 30 years in India. He studied botany in Edinburgh under John Hope. He was the director of the Botanic Garden in Madras. He made use of local artists to make illustrations of the plants around him...
& Arn. - *Gruhlmannia Neck.
- *Grumilea Gaertn.Joseph GaertnerJoseph Gaertner was a German botanist, best known for his work on seeds, De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum ....
- Greeniopsis Merr.Elmer Drew MerrillElmer Drew Merrill was an American botanist, specializing in the flora of the Asia-Pacific region.He was born in East Auburn, Maine, and attended the University of Maine where he received a B.S. in 1898...
- GuettardaGuettardaGuettarda is a plant genus in the family Rubiaceae. Most of these plants are known by the common name Velvetseed. Estimates of the number of species range from about 50 to 162. Most of the species are neotropical. Twenty are found in New Caledonia and one reaches Australia...
L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology... - *Guettardella Champ. ex Benth.George BenthamGeorge Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
- *Guttenbergia Zoll. & Moritzi
- Gynochthodes BlumeCarl Ludwig BlumeCharles Ludwig de Blume or Karl Ludwig von Blume was a German-Dutch botanist.He was born at Braunschweig in Germany, but studied at Leiden University and spent his professional life working in the Dutch East Indies and in the Netherlands, where he was Director of the Rijksherbarium at Leiden...
- *Gynopachis BlumeCarl Ludwig BlumeCharles Ludwig de Blume or Karl Ludwig von Blume was a German-Dutch botanist.He was born at Braunschweig in Germany, but studied at Leiden University and spent his professional life working in the Dutch East Indies and in the Netherlands, where he was Director of the Rijksherbarium at Leiden...
- Gyrostipula J.-F.Leroy
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- Habroneuron Standl.Paul Carpenter StandleyPaul Carpenter Standley was an American botanist.Standley was born in Avalon, Missouri...
- Haldina Ridsdale
- *HalleaHalleaHallea is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Hallea ledermannii, B. Verdcourt* Hallea stipulosa, Leroy...
J.-F.Leroy - HameliaHameliaHamelia is a genus of flowering plants in the coffee family, Rubiaceae. The name honors French botanist Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau .-Selected species:* Hamelia axillaris Sw. – Guayabo Negro* Hamelia cuprea Griseb....
Jacq.Nikolaus Joseph von JacquinNikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin or Baron Nikolaus von Jacquin. was a scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany.... - *Hayataella Masam.Genkei Masamunewas a Japanese botanist, who worked in Formosa and then, after World War II, Taiwan. He was noted for his comprehensive botanical indexes of Borneo and Taiwan, as well as for the identification of large numbers of new species.-Selected publications:...
- Hedstromia A.C.Sm.Albert Charles SmithAlbert Charles Smith was an American botanist.-Life:He was a director of the National Museum of Natural History, and chaired several important scientific societies, such as the American Society of Plant Taxonomists....
- HedyotisHedyotisHedyotis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. Many species of this genus such as Hedyotis biflora, H. corymbosa and H. diffusa are well known medicinal plants. The hedyotis is native to tropical and subtropical Asia and to islands of the northwest Pacific. It comprises about...
L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology... - Hedythyrsus Bremek.
- Heinsenia K.Schum.Karl Moritz SchumannKarl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...
- Heinsia DC.
- Hekistocarpa Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
- *Hemidiodia K.Schum.Karl Moritz SchumannKarl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...
- *Henlea H.Karst.Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann KarstenGustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten was a German botanist and geologist. Born in Stralsund, he followed the example of Alexander von Humboldt and traveled 1844-56 to the north of South America. He died 1908 in Berlin-Grunewald....
- HenriqueziaHenriqueziaHenriquezia is a genus of three species of shrubs or trees in the family Rubiaceae, sometimes classified as Henriqueziaceae, native to Amazon basin.Species*Henriquezia jenmanii*Henriquezia nitida*Henriquezia verticillata-References:...
SpruceRichard SpruceRichard Spruce was an English botanist. One of the great Victorian botanical explorers, Spruce spent approximately 15 years exploring the Amazon from the Andes to the mouth, and was one of the first Europeans to visit many of the places where he collected specimens.The plants and objects collected...
ex Benth.George BenthamGeorge Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :... - HeterophyllaeaHeterophyllaeaHeterophyllaea is a genus of three species of shrubs in the family Rubiaceae, native to Bolivia and Argentina.Species*Heterophyllaea fiebrigii Standl.*Heterophyllaea lycioides Sandwith...
Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend... - *Hexactina Willd. ex Schult.Josef August SchultesJosef August Schultes 1773-1831 was an Austrian botanist and professor in Vienna. Together with Johann Jacob Roemer, he published the 16th edition of Linnaeus' Systema Vegetabilium. In 1821, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.Father of Julius Hermann...
& Schult.f.Julius Hermann SchultesJulius Hermann Schultes was an Austrian botanist in Vienna. He co-authored volume 7 of the Roemer & Schultes edition of the Systema Vegetabilium with his father Josef August Schultes.-Notes:... - *Hexepta Raf.
- HilliaHilliaHillia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It has 24 species. All are indigenous to tropical America.Most of the species are slightly succulent epiphytes or small trees. A few are subshrubs or lianas. Hillia rivalis is a rheophyte. The tissues of all the species contain...
Jacq.Nikolaus Joseph von JacquinNikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin or Baron Nikolaus von Jacquin. was a scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany.... - Himalrandia T.Yamaz.
- HindsiaHindsiaHindsia is a genus of about 11 species of shrubs in the family Rubiaceae, native to tropical South America, mainly inBrazil.Species*Hindsia arianeae*Hindsia cucullata*Hindsia glabra*Hindsia ibitipocensis*Hindsia irwinii...
Benth.George BenthamGeorge Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
ex Lindl.John LindleyJohn Lindley FRS was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist.-Early years:Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley was a nurseryman and pomologist and ran a commercial nursery garden... - HintoniaHintonia (plant)Hintonia is a plant genus in the family Rubiaceae.- Species :* Hintonia latiflora* Hintonia lumaeana* Hintonia octomera* Hintonia pulchra* Hintonia standleyana...
Bullock - Hippotis RuizHipólito Ruiz LópezHipólito Ruiz López , or Hipólito Ruiz, was a Spanish botanist known for researching the floras of Peru and Chile during an expedition under Carlos III from 1777 to 1788...
& Pav.José Antonio Pavón JiménezJosé Antonio Pavón Jiménez or José Antonio Pavón was a Spanish botanist known for researching the flora of Peru and Chile during an expedition under Carlos III from 1777 to 1788... - *Hitoa Nadeaud
- Hodgkinsonia F.Muell.Ferdinand von MuellerBaron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, KCMG was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist.-Early life:...
- HoffmanniaHoffmanniaHoffmannia is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Hoffmannia ecuatoriana, Standl.* Hoffmannia modesta, Diels...
Sw. - Holstianthus Steyerm.Julian Alfred SteyermarkJulian Alfred Steyermark was an American botanist. His focus was on New World vegetation, and he specialized in the family Rubiaceae.- Life and work :...
- Homollea Arènes
- Homolliella Arènes
- *Hondbessen Adans.Michel AdansonMichel Adanson was a French naturalist of Scottish descent.Adanson was born at Aix-en-Provence. His family moved to Paris on 1730. After leaving the College Sainte Barbe he was employed in the cabinets of R. A. F. Reaumur and Bernard de Jussieu, as well as in the Jardin des Plantes. At the end of...
- HoustoniaHoustonia (genus)Houstonia is a genus of plants in the Rubiaceae family. Many species were formerly placed in a more inclusive Hedyotis....
L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology... - HutchinsoniaHutchinsoniaHutchinsonia is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It was descripted by Walter Robyns in 1928 and was named after his friend and colleague John Hutchinson. It is found in west tropical Africa.-Species:* Hutchinsonia barbata Robyns...
RobynsFrans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter RobynsFrans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns, known as Walter Robyns, was a Belgian botanist.After two long stays in Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, travels in central Africa and taxonomic work on many groups of tropical African plants, amongst others Rubiaceae, grasses and legumes, he became director of... - HydnophytumHydnophytumHydnophytum is a genus of epiphytic myrmecophytes native to Southeast Asia, the Pacific region and also extending into Queensland in northern Australia. The name is derived from the Ancient Greek hydnon "tuber", and phyton "plant", after their appearance with their swollen succulent stems. The...
Jack - Hydrophylax L.f.Carolus Linnaeus the YoungerCarl Linnaeus the Younger, Carl von Linné or Carolus Linnaeus the Younger was a Swedish naturalist...
- *Hylacium P.Beauv.
- *Hymenocnemis Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
- HymenocoleusHymenocoleusHymenocoleus is a genus of flowering plants in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Hymenocoleus glaber Robbr....
Robbr. - HymenodictyonHymenodictyonHymenodictyon is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It has about 30 species. All are native to the Old World. The wood of Hymenodictyon orixense is soft and has limited use, mostly for boxes. The type species for Hymenodictyon is Hymenodictyon orixense...
Wall.Nathaniel WallichNathaniel Wallich was a surgeon and botanist of Danish origin who worked in India initially in the Danish settlement near Calcutta and later joined the East India Company... - HyperacanthusHyperacanthusHyperacanthus is a flowering plant genus in the family Rubiaceae, occurring on Madagascar and nearby southern Africa, approximately from Mozambique to the southernmost parts of the continent....
E.Mey.Ernst Heinrich Friedrich MeyerErnst Heinrich Friedrich Meyer was a German botanist and botanical historian. Born in Hanover, he lectured in Göttingen and in 1826 became a professor of botany at the University of Königsberg, as well as Director of the Botanical Garden. His botanical specialty was the Juncaceae, or family of...
ex Bridson - Hypobathrum BlumeCarl Ludwig BlumeCharles Ludwig de Blume or Karl Ludwig von Blume was a German-Dutch botanist.He was born at Braunschweig in Germany, but studied at Leiden University and spent his professional life working in the Dutch East Indies and in the Netherlands, where he was Director of the Rijksherbarium at Leiden...
- *Hypodematium A.Rich.Achille RichardAchille Richard was a French botanist and physician .He was son of a notable botanist, Louis-Claude Marie Richard .Pharmacist in the French fleet and member of several well-known societies of their time....
- Hyptianthera WightRobert WightRobert Wight was a Scottish surgeon and botanist who spent 30 years in India. He studied botany in Edinburgh under John Hope. He was the director of the Botanic Garden in Madras. He made use of local artists to make illustrations of the plants around him...
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- *Ibetralia Bremek..
- *Imantina Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
- *Indopolysolenia Bennet
- *IpecacuanhaIpecacuanhaIpecacuanha was a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family but is no longer recognized. It has been sunk into synonymy with Psychotria....
Arruda - IsertiaIsertiaIsertia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It has 14 species, all indigenous to the neotropics. They are shrubs or small trees. A few are cultivated as ornamentals. The type species for the genus is Isertia coccinea....
Schreb.Johann Christian Daniel von SchreberJohann Christian Daniel von Schreber , often styled I.C.D. von Schreber, was a German naturalist.-Career:He was elected Professor of Materia medica at the University of Erlangen in 1769.... - IsidoreaIsidoreaIsidorea is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It is found in Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Haiti.-Species:...
A.RichAchille RichardAchille Richard was a French botanist and physician .He was son of a notable botanist, Louis-Claude Marie Richard .Pharmacist in the French fleet and member of several well-known societies of their time....
ex DC. - IxoraIxoraIxora is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It consists of tropical evergreen trees and shrubs and holds around 500 species. Though native to the tropical and subtropical areas throughout the world, its centre of diversity is in Tropical Asia. Ixora also grows commonly in...
L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...
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- Jackiopsis Ridsdale
- Janotia J.-F.Leroy
- *Jaubertia Guill.Jean Baptiste Antoine GuilleminJean Baptiste Antoine Guillemin was a French botanist.In 1812 he was apprenticed to a pharmacist in Dijon, and in 1814 moved to Geneva, where he studied with Jean Pierre Étienne Vaucher and Augustin Pyramus de Candolle...
- *Javorkaea Borhidi & Jarai-Koml.
- JoosiaJoosiaJoosia is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Joosia aequatoria, Steyerm.* Joosia longisepala, L.Andersson* Joosia macrocalyx, Standl. ex Steyerm....
H.Karst.Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann KarstenGustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten was a German botanist and geologist. Born in Stralsund, he followed the example of Alexander von Humboldt and traveled 1844-56 to the north of South America. He died 1908 in Berlin-Grunewald.... - Jovetia Guédès
- *Jurgensia Raf.
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- Kailarsenia Tirveng.
- Kajewskiella Merr.Elmer Drew MerrillElmer Drew Merrill was an American botanist, specializing in the flora of the Asia-Pacific region.He was born in East Auburn, Maine, and attended the University of Maine where he received a B.S. in 1898...
& L.M.Perry - Keenania Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
- KeetiaKeetiaKeetia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It consists of climbers or scrambling shrubs, rarely small trees.-Taxonomy:...
E.PhillipsEdwin Percy PhillipsEdwin Percy Phillips , was a South African botanist and taxonomist, noted for his monumental work The Genera of South African Flowering Plants first published in 1926.... - Kelloggia Torr. ex Benth.George BenthamGeorge Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
& Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend... - Kerianthera J.H.Kirkbr.
- Khasiaclunea Ridsdale
- Klossia Ridl.Henry Nicholas RidleyHenry Nicholas Ridley CMG , MA , FRS, FLS, F.R.H.S. was an English botanist and geologist.Born at West Harling Hall, Norfolk, England...
- Knoxia L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...
- Kochummenia K.M.Wong
- KohautiaKohautiaKohautia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. They are native to tropical areas of Asia, Africa, and Madagascar. Thirty-one species are known. The type species for the genus is Kohautia senegalensis....
Cham.Adelbert von ChamissoAdelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...
& Schltdl.Diederich Franz Leonhard von SchlechtendalDiederich von Schlechtendal was a German botanist born in Xanten. He was Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Gardens at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1833 until his death in 1866, and Editor of the botanical journal Linnaea.His most important work was in... - KraussiaKraussiaKraussia is a flowering plant genus in the family Rubiaceae.Species include:* Kraussia socotrana, Bridson* Kraussia speciosa, Bullock...
Harv.William Henry HarveyWilliam Henry Harvey was an Irish botanist who specialised in algae.- Biography :William Henry Harvey was born at Summerville near Limerick, Ireland, in 1811, the youngest of 11 children. His father Joseph Massey Harvey, was a Quaker and prominent merchant... - Kutchubaea Fisch.Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von FischerFriedrich Ernst Ludwig Fischer was a Russian botanist, born in Germany. He was director of the St Petersburg botanical garden from 1823 to 1850....
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- LadenbergiaLadenbergiaLadenbergia is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Ladenbergia acutifolia, Klotzsch* Ladenbergia ferruginea, Standl.* Ladenbergia gavanensis, Standl....
KlotzschJohann Friedrich KlotzschJohann Friedrich Klotzsch was a German pharmacist and botanist.His principal work was in the field of mycology, with the study and description of many species of mushroom.-Selected works:... - *LagyniasLagyniasLagynias was a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family but is no longer recognized. In 2005, it was sunk into synonymy with Vangueria, based on a phylogenetic study of DNA sequences....
E.Mey.Ernst Heinrich Friedrich MeyerErnst Heinrich Friedrich Meyer was a German botanist and botanical historian. Born in Hanover, he lectured in Göttingen and in 1826 became a professor of botany at the University of Königsberg, as well as Director of the Botanical Garden. His botanical specialty was the Juncaceae, or family of...
ex RobynsFrans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter RobynsFrans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns, known as Walter Robyns, was a Belgian botanist.After two long stays in Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, travels in central Africa and taxonomic work on many groups of tropical African plants, amongst others Rubiaceae, grasses and legumes, he became director of... - Lamprothamnus HiernWilliam Philip HiernWilliam Philip Hiern was a British mathematician and botanist.Hiern attended St. John's College, Cambridge, from 1857 to 1861 and attained a "first class degree" in mathematics...
- Landiopsis CapuronRené Paul Raymond CapuronRené Paul Raymond Capuron was a French botanist. Capuron was responsible for an extensive amount of work on the tree flora of Madagascar.- Works :Highlights of his work include:* M...
ex Bosser - LasianthusLasianthusLasianthus is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Lasianthus capitulatus, Wt.* Lasianthus ciliatus, Wight* Lasianthus gardneri, Hook.f....
Jack - Lathraeocarpa Bremek.
- Lecananthus Jack
- *Lecanosperma Rusby
- Lecariocalyx Bremek.
- *Leiochilus Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
- Lelya Bremek.
- Lemyrea (A.Chev.Auguste Jean Baptiste ChevalierAuguste Jean Baptiste Chevalier was a French botanist, taxonomist, and explorer of tropical Africa, especially of French colonial empire Africa and Côte d'Ivoire. He also explored and collected plants in South America and tropical Asia...
) A.Chev.Auguste Jean Baptiste ChevalierAuguste Jean Baptiste Chevalier was a French botanist, taxonomist, and explorer of tropical Africa, especially of French colonial empire Africa and Côte d'Ivoire. He also explored and collected plants in South America and tropical Asia...
& Beille - Lepidostoma Bremek.
- LeptactinaLeptactinaLeptactina is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae.-Selected species:* Leptactina densiflora Hook.f.* Leptactina papyrophloea Verdc.* Leptactina senegambica Hook.f....
Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend... - Leptodermis Wall.Nathaniel WallichNathaniel Wallich was a surgeon and botanist of Danish origin who worked in India initially in the Danish settlement near Calcutta and later joined the East India Company...
- Leptomischus DrakeEmmanuel Drake del CastilloEmmanuel Drake del Castillo was a French botanist.He was born at Paris and studied with Louis Édouard Bureau at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle...
- Leptoscela Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
- Leptostigma Arn.
- *Leptunis Steven
- Lerchea L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...
- *LeroyaLeroyaLeroya was a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family but is no longer recognized. The genus contained two species, i.e. L. madagascariensis and L. richardiae, which are endemic to Madagascar. It was sunk into synonymy with Pyrostria....
Cavaco - Leucocodon GardnerGeorge Gardner (botanist)George Gardner was a Scottish naturalist mainly interested in botany.Gardner's father was a gardener first to to the Earl of Dunmore in Ardentinny, then from 1816 to the Earl of Eglinton at Ardrossan. In 1822, his parents moved to Glasgow where he attended the grammar-school and acquired a...
- Leucolophus Bremek.
- Limnosipanea Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
- *Lindenia Benth.George BenthamGeorge Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
- *LitosanthesLitosanthesLitosanthes is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Litosanthes capitulatus, Deb. & Gang....
BlumeCarl Ludwig BlumeCharles Ludwig de Blume or Karl Ludwig von Blume was a German-Dutch botanist.He was born at Braunschweig in Germany, but studied at Leiden University and spent his professional life working in the Dutch East Indies and in the Netherlands, where he was Director of the Rijksherbarium at Leiden... - *Lucinaea DC.
- LuculiaLuculiaLuculia is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It presents as a shrub or small tree. Generally found on upland scrub and on woodland or forest margins. The plant has large leaves from 20-35cm with prominent veins carried in opposite pairs and with a terminal of an umbel or...
SweetRobert Sweet (botanist)Robert Sweet was an English botanist, horticulturist and ornithologist.Born at Cockington near Torquay, Devonshire, England in 1783, Sweet worked as a gardener from the age of sixteen, and became foreman or partner in a series of nurseries. He was associated with nurseries at Stockwell, Fulham... - Lucya DC.
- Ludekia Ridsdale
- *Lycioserissa Roem. & Schult.Josef August SchultesJosef August Schultes 1773-1831 was an Austrian botanist and professor in Vienna. Together with Johann Jacob Roemer, he published the 16th edition of Linnaeus' Systema Vegetabilium. In 1821, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.Father of Julius Hermann...
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- Macbrideina Standl.Paul Carpenter StandleyPaul Carpenter Standley was an American botanist.Standley was born in Avalon, Missouri...
- MachaoniaMachaoniaMachaonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It has about 32 species. All are indigenous to the neotropics. None has a unique common name. Some species have been called "alfilerillo", a Spanish name for the common and well-known genus Erodium...
Humb. & Bonpl. - *Macrandria (WightRobert WightRobert Wight was a Scottish surgeon and botanist who spent 30 years in India. He studied botany in Edinburgh under John Hope. He was the director of the Botanic Garden in Madras. He made use of local artists to make illustrations of the plants around him...
& Arn.) Meisn.Carl MeissnerCarl Daniel Friedrich Meissner was a Swiss botanist.Born in Bern, Switzerland on 1 November 1800, he was christened Meisner but later changed the spelling of his name to Meissner. For most of his 40 year career he was Professor of Botany at University of Basel... - *Macrocalyx MiersJohn Miers (botanist)John Miers, FRS FLS, knight grand cross of the Order of the Rose, was a British botanist and engineer, best known for his work on the flora of Chile and Argentina....
ex Lindl.John LindleyJohn Lindley FRS was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist.-Early years:Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley was a nurseryman and pomologist and ran a commercial nursery garden... - MacrocnemumMacrocnemumMacrocnemum is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Macrocnemum cinchonoides, Wedd.* Macrocnemum jamaicense, L.* Macrocnemum pilosinervium, Standl....
P.BrownePatrick BrownePatrick Browne was an Irish physician and botanist.-Career:Browne was born in Woodstock, County Mayo, sent to relatives on Antigua in 1737 and returned to Europe due to ill health after two years. He studied medicine, natural history and especially botany at Reims, Paris and Leyden, qualifying... - Macrosphyra Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
- Maguireocharis Steyerm.Julian Alfred SteyermarkJulian Alfred Steyermark was an American botanist. His focus was on New World vegetation, and he specialized in the family Rubiaceae.- Life and work :...
- Maguireothamnus Steyerm.Julian Alfred SteyermarkJulian Alfred Steyermark was an American botanist. His focus was on New World vegetation, and he specialized in the family Rubiaceae.- Life and work :...
- Malanea Aubl.Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée AubletJean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet was a French pharmacist, botanist and explorer.Born in Salon-de-Provence, he joined the French East India Company and in 1752 was sent to Mauritius to establish a pharmacy and a botanical garden. He worked there for nine years...
- ManettiaManettiaManettia is a genus of about 80 species of lianas and twining herbs in the family Rubiaceae, native to tropical America.Selected species*Manettia cordifolia *Manettia luteorubra...
Mutis ex L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology... - Manostachya Bremek.
- Mantalania CapuronRené Paul Raymond CapuronRené Paul Raymond Capuron was a French botanist. Capuron was responsible for an extensive amount of work on the tree flora of Madagascar.- Works :Highlights of his work include:* M...
ex J.-F.Leroy - *Mapouria Aubl.Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée AubletJean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet was a French pharmacist, botanist and explorer.Born in Salon-de-Provence, he joined the French East India Company and in 1752 was sent to Mauritius to establish a pharmacy and a botanical garden. He worked there for nine years...
- Margaritopsis Sauvalle
- Maschalocorymbus Bremek.
- Maschalodesme K.Schum.Karl Moritz SchumannKarl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...
& Lauterb. - Massularia (K.Schum.Karl Moritz SchumannKarl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...
) Hoyle - MastixiodendronMastixiodendronMastixiodendron is a genus of flowering plants in the coffee family, Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Mastixiodendron plectocarpum S.Darwin* Mastixiodendron stoddardii Merr. & Perry...
Melch.Hans MelchiorHans Melchior was a German botanist.He studied botany at Berlin University, became assistant to G... - Mazaea Krug & Urb.Ignatz UrbanIgnatz Urban was a German botanist. He is known for his contributions to the flora of the Caribbean and Brazil, and for his work as curator of the Berlin Botanical Garden. Born the son of a brewer, Urban showed an interest in botany as an undergraduate...
- *Megalopus K.Schum.Karl Moritz SchumannKarl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...
- *Melachone Gilli
- Melanopsidium CollaLuigi Aloysius CollaLuigi Aloysius Colla was an Italian botanist of the late 18th and early 19th Centuries. He was a member of the Provisional Government of Savoy from December 12, 1798 to April 2, 1799, taking his turn as chairman of the government in rotation for a ten-day term...
- *Menestoria DC.
- Mericarpaea Boiss.Pierre Edmond BoissierPierre Edmond Boissier was a Swiss botanist, explorer and mathematician.He was the son of Jacques Boissier and Lucile Butini , daughter of Pierre Butini a well-known physician and naturalist from Geneva...
- Merumea Steyerm.Julian Alfred SteyermarkJulian Alfred Steyermark was an American botanist. His focus was on New World vegetation, and he specialized in the family Rubiaceae.- Life and work :...
- *MesopteraMesoptera (Rubiaceae genus)Mesoptera was a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family but is no longer recognized. It was originally described by Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1873. The genus contained only one species, i.e. Mesoptera maingayi. It was sunk into synonymy with Psydrax....
Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend... - Metabolos BlumeCarl Ludwig BlumeCharles Ludwig de Blume or Karl Ludwig von Blume was a German-Dutch botanist.He was born at Braunschweig in Germany, but studied at Leiden University and spent his professional life working in the Dutch East Indies and in the Netherlands, where he was Director of the Rijksherbarium at Leiden...
- Metadina Bakh.f.
- MeynaMeynaMeyna is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family.-Distribution:It has representatives in both nordeastern tropical Africa and tropical Asia.-Taxonomy:...
Roxb.William RoxburghWilliam Roxburgh was a Scottish surgeon and botanist. He has been called the Father of Indian Botany.-Early life:Roxburgh was born at Underwood in the parish of Craigie, Ayrshire. He studied medicine in Edinburgh...
ex LinkJohann Heinrich Friedrich LinkJohann Heinrich Friedrich Link was a German naturalist and botanist.Link was born at Hildesheim as a son of the minister August Heinrich Link , who taught him the love for nature through collection of 'natural objects'... - Micrasepalum Urb.Ignatz UrbanIgnatz Urban was a German botanist. He is known for his contributions to the flora of the Caribbean and Brazil, and for his work as curator of the Berlin Botanical Garden. Born the son of a brewer, Urban showed an interest in botany as an undergraduate...
- Microphysa Schrenk
- MitchellaMitchellaMitchella is a small genus from the family Rubiaceae, native to the Americas and eastern Asia.The genus Mitchella L., was named by Carl Linnaeus after his friend John Mitchell , an English physician who lived in America and gave Linnaeus much valuable information on American flora.It consists of a...
L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology... - Mitracarpus Zucc.Joseph Gerhard ZuccariniJoseph Gerhard Zuccarini was a German botanist, Professor of Botany at the University of München. He worked extensively with Philipp Franz von Siebold, assisting in describing his collections from Japan, but also described plants discovered in other areas, including Mexico.-References:...
ex Schult.Josef August SchultesJosef August Schultes 1773-1831 was an Austrian botanist and professor in Vienna. Together with Johann Jacob Roemer, he published the 16th edition of Linnaeus' Systema Vegetabilium. In 1821, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.Father of Julius Hermann...
& Schult.f.Julius Hermann SchultesJulius Hermann Schultes was an Austrian botanist in Vienna. He co-authored volume 7 of the Roemer & Schultes edition of the Systema Vegetabilium with his father Josef August Schultes.-Notes:... - MitragynaMitragynaMitragyna is a genus of trees in the Rubiaceae family. Members of this genus contain antimalarial and analgesic indole alkaloids. Species of this genus include Mitragyna ciliata, Mitragyna ledermannii, Mitragyna parviflora, Mitragyna speciosa, Mitragyna stipulosa. and Mitragyna inermis...
Korth.Pieter Willem KorthalsPieter Willem Korthals was a Dutch botanist. Korthals was the official botanist with the Dutch East India Service from 1831 to 1836.... - Mitrasacmopsis Jovet
- *MitrastigmaMitrastigmaMitrastigma was a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family but is no longer recognized. It was originally described by William Henry Harvey in 1842. The genus contained only one species, i.e. Mitrastigma lucidum. It was sunk into synonymy with Psydrax....
Harv.William Henry HarveyWilliam Henry Harvey was an Irish botanist who specialised in algae.- Biography :William Henry Harvey was born at Summerville near Limerick, Ireland, in 1811, the youngest of 11 children. His father Joseph Massey Harvey, was a Quaker and prominent merchant... - Mitriostigma Hochst.Christian Ferdinand Friedrich HochstetterChristian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter was a German botanist and Protestant minister who was a native of Stuttgart. He was the father of geologist Ferdinand Hochstetter ....
- Molopanthera Turcz.Nicolai Stepanovitch TurczaninowPorphir Kiril Nicolai Stepanowitsch Turczaninow was a Ukrainian-Russian botanist who first identified several genera, and many species of plants...
- Monosalpinx N.Hallé
- *Montamans Dwyer
- Morelia A.RichAchille RichardAchille Richard was a French botanist and physician .He was son of a notable botanist, Louis-Claude Marie Richard .Pharmacist in the French fleet and member of several well-known societies of their time....
ex DC. - Morierina Vieill.
- MorindaMorindaMorinda is a genus of flowering plants in the madder family, Rubiaceae. The generic name is derived from the Latin words morus, meaning "mulberry," and indica, meaning "of India," referring to the shape of the fruits. -Description:...
L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology... - Morindopsis Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
- Motleyia J.T.Johanss.
- MouretiaMouretiaMouretia is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Mouretia tonkinensis, Pitard...
Pit. - MultidentiaMultidentiaMultidentia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae.-Distribution:Multidentia is restricted to tropical Africa with the greatest concentration of species occurring in eastern Africa.-Taxonomy:...
Gilli - Mussaenda L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...
- Mussaendopsis Baill.Henri Ernest BaillonHenri Ernest Baillon was a French botanist and physician. He was born in Calais on November 30, 1827 and died in Paris on July 19, 1895.Baillon spent his professional life as a professor of natural history, and he published numerous works on botany...
- Mycetia Reinw.Caspar Georg Carl ReinwardtCaspar Georg Carl Reinwardt was a Prussian-born Dutch botanist.Reinwardt was the founder and first director of agriculture of the botanic garden at Bogor in Java...
- *Myonima Comm. ex A.Juss.Adrien-Henri de JussieuAdrien-Henri de Jussieu was a French botanist.Born in Paris as the son of botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1824 with a treatise of the plant family Euphorbiaceae. When his father retired in 1826, he succeeded him at the Jardin des Plantes; in...
- Myrioneuron R.Br.Robert Brown (botanist)Robert Brown was a Scottish botanist and palaeobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope...
ex Hook.William Jackson HookerSir William Jackson Hooker, FRS was an English systematic botanist and organiser. He held the post of Regius Professor of Botany at Glasgow University, and was the first Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He enjoyed the friendship and support of Sir Joseph Banks for his exploring,... - MyrmecodiaMyrmecodiaMyrmecodia is a genus of epiphytic myrmecophytes native to Southeast Asia and large islands extending south to Queensland in Australia. Myrmecodia plants grow in tree branches and on trunks. In nature, Myrmecodia tubers often grow hanging downward on bare branches without significant amounts of...
Jack - Myrmeconauclea Merr.Elmer Drew MerrillElmer Drew Merrill was an American botanist, specializing in the flora of the Asia-Pacific region.He was born in East Auburn, Maine, and attended the University of Maine where he received a B.S. in 1898...
- Myrmephytum Becc.Odoardo BeccariOdoardo Beccari was an Italian naturalist perhaps best known for discovering the titan arum, the plant with the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world, in Sumatra in 1878...
- *Myrstiphylla Ridl.Henry Nicholas RidleyHenry Nicholas Ridley CMG , MA , FRS, FLS, F.R.H.S. was an English botanist and geologist.Born at West Harling Hall, Norfolk, England...
- *Myrstiphyllum P.BrownePatrick BrownePatrick Browne was an Irish physician and botanist.-Career:Browne was born in Woodstock, County Mayo, sent to relatives on Antigua in 1737 and returned to Europe due to ill health after two years. He studied medicine, natural history and especially botany at Reims, Paris and Leyden, qualifying...
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- *Naletonia Bremek.
- NargediaNargediaNargedia is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Nargedia macrocarpa, Beddome...
Bedd.Richard Henry BeddomeColonel Richard Henry Beddome was a British military officer in India, chief conservator of the Madras Forest Department and a naturalist... - NaucleaNaucleaNauclea is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. The species are evergreen trees or shrubs that are native to the paleotropics. The terminal vegetative buds are usually strongly flattened. The generic name is derived from the Ancient Greek words naus, meaning "ship" and kleio,...
L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology... - Neanotis W.H.Lewis
- Neblinathamnus Steyerm.Julian Alfred SteyermarkJulian Alfred Steyermark was an American botanist. His focus was on New World vegetation, and he specialized in the family Rubiaceae.- Life and work :...
- NematostylisNematostylisNematostylis is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. The genus contains only one species, i.e. Nematostylis anthophylla, which is endemic to Madagascar.-Taxonomy:...
Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend... - Nenax Gaertn.Joseph GaertnerJoseph Gaertner was a German botanist, best known for his work on seeds, De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum ....
- Neobertiera Wernham
- Neoblakea Standl.Paul Carpenter StandleyPaul Carpenter Standley was an American botanist.Standley was born in Avalon, Missouri...
- *Neobreonia Ridsdale
- *Neofranciella GuillauminAndré GuillauminAndré Louis Joseph Edmond Armand Guillaumin is a French botanist who was born on 21 June 1885 in Arrou and died on 29 May 1974 in Athis-Mons. He obtained his license in natural sciences in 1906 and began work in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris in 1909 as a preparer...
- *Neogaillonia Lincz.
- Neohymenopogon Bennet
- Neolamarckia Bosser
- *Neolaugeria Nicolson
- *NeoleroyaNeoleroyaNeoleroya was a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family but is no longer recognized. The genus contained only one species, i.e. Neoleroya verdcourtii, which is endemic to Madagascar. It was sunk into synonymy with Pyrostria....
Cavaco - Neomussaenda Tange
- NeonaucleaNeonaucleaNeonauclea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It comprises about 65 species. Three of these were described as recently as 2008. Neonauclea is a genus of shrubs and trees They are indigenous to China, India, Southeast Asia, and Indonesia. Neonauclea tsaiana has some limited...
Merr.Elmer Drew MerrillElmer Drew Merrill was an American botanist, specializing in the flora of the Asia-Pacific region.He was born in East Auburn, Maine, and attended the University of Maine where he received a B.S. in 1898... - *Neopentanisia Verdc.Bernard VerdcourtBernard Verdcourt was a biologist and taxonomist, most widely known as a botanist and latterly an Honorary Research Fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London. Prior to coming to Kew in 1964, he was associated with the East African Herbarium for 15 years...
- *Neoschimpera Hemsl.William Hemsley (botanist)William Botting Hemsley was an English botanist and 1909 Victoria Medal of Honour recipient....
- Nernstia Urb.Ignatz UrbanIgnatz Urban was a German botanist. He is known for his contributions to the flora of the Caribbean and Brazil, and for his work as curator of the Berlin Botanical Garden. Born the son of a brewer, Urban showed an interest in botany as an undergraduate...
- NerteraNerteraNertera is a genus of about 15 species of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae, native to the Southern Hemisphere, in South America and Australasia, with one species extending into the Northern Hemisphere in Central America and eastern Asia. The name derives from the Greek word nerteros,...
BanksJoseph BanksSir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, GCB, PRS was an English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences. He took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage . Banks is credited with the introduction to the Western world of eucalyptus, acacia, mimosa and the genus named after him,...
ex Sol.Daniel SolanderDaniel Carlsson Solander or Daniel Charles Solander was a Swedish naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Solander was the first university educated scientist to set foot on Australian soil.-Biography:... - *Nescidia A.Rich.Achille RichardAchille Richard was a French botanist and physician .He was son of a notable botanist, Louis-Claude Marie Richard .Pharmacist in the French fleet and member of several well-known societies of their time....
ex DC. - NesohedyotisNesohedyotisNesohedyotis is an endemic genus of flowering plants from the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. It in the family Rubiaceae ....
(Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
) Bremek. - *Nettlera Ridl.Henry Nicholas RidleyHenry Nicholas Ridley CMG , MA , FRS, FLS, F.R.H.S. was an English botanist and geologist.Born at West Harling Hall, Norfolk, England...
- Neurocalyx Hook.William Jackson HookerSir William Jackson Hooker, FRS was an English systematic botanist and organiser. He held the post of Regius Professor of Botany at Glasgow University, and was the first Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He enjoyed the friendship and support of Sir Joseph Banks for his exploring,...
- Nichallea Bridson
- Nodocarpaea A.GrayAsa Gray-References:*Asa Gray. Dictionary of American Biography. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928–1936.*Asa Gray. Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed. 17 Vols. Gale Research, 1998.*Asa Gray. Plant Sciences. 4 vols. Macmillan Reference USA, 2001....
- *Nonatelia Aubl.Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée AubletJean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet was a French pharmacist, botanist and explorer.Born in Salon-de-Provence, he joined the French East India Company and in 1752 was sent to Mauritius to establish a pharmacy and a botanical garden. He worked there for nine years...
- Normandia Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
- NostolachmaNostolachmaNostolachma is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Nostolachma crassifolia, Deb. & Lahiri...
T.Durand - Notopleura (Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
) Bremek.
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- OchreinaucleaOchreinaucleaOchreinauclea is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Ochreinauclea missionis, Ridsd....
Ridsdale & Bakh.f. - *OctodonOctodonOctodon is a genus of octodontid rodents, of which the best-known member is the degu O. degus. The full list of species is:* O. bridgesi, Bridge's Degu, found in Argentina and Chile...
Thonn.Peter ThonningPeter Thonning was a Danish physician and botanist.He was sent to Ghana by the Danish government to supervise the plantations of that colony, and he lived there from 1799 to 1803. His herbarium was destroyed during the shelling of Copenhagen by the British in 1807... - Octotropis Bedd.Richard Henry BeddomeColonel Richard Henry Beddome was a British military officer in India, chief conservator of the Madras Forest Department and a naturalist...
- OldenlandiaOldenlandiaOldenlandia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It is pantropical in distribution and has about 240 species. The type species for the genus is Oldenlandia corymbosa....
L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology... - OldenlandiopsisOldenlandiopsisOldenlandiopsis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It is monospecific, comprising only one species, Oldenlandiopsis callitrichoides. This species had previously been placed in Hedyotis or in Oldenlandia. It is native to the West Indies, southern Mexico, and Central America...
Terrell & W.H.Lewis - Oligocodon Keay
- Omiltemia Standl.Paul Carpenter StandleyPaul Carpenter Standley was an American botanist.Standley was born in Avalon, Missouri...
- OperculariaOperculariaOpercularia is a genus of perennials and subshrubs in the family Rubiaceae. There are about 15 species, all of which are endemic to Australia. Many of the species have an unpleasant odour.Species include:*Opercularia acolytantha Diels...
Gaertn.Joseph GaertnerJoseph Gaertner was a German botanist, best known for his work on seeds, De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum .... - OphiorrhizaOphiorrhizaOphiorrhiza is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae|coffee family. Species of the genus contain camptothecin, an alkaloid used to make chemotherapeutic agents.So many of Ophiorrhiza species are endemic to certain areas of western Ghats....
L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology... - *Ophryococcus Oerst.Anders Sandøe Ørsted (botanist)Anders Sandøe Ørsted, also written as Anders Sandoe Oersted or Anders Sandö Örsted was a Danish botanist, mycologist, zoologist and marine biologist. He was nephew of the brothers physicist H.C...
- *Oregandra Standl.Paul Carpenter StandleyPaul Carpenter Standley was an American botanist.Standley was born in Avalon, Missouri...
- Oreopolus Schltdl.Diederich Franz Leonhard von SchlechtendalDiederich von Schlechtendal was a German botanist born in Xanten. He was Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Gardens at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1833 until his death in 1866, and Editor of the botanical journal Linnaea.His most important work was in...
- Osa Aiello
- OtiophoraOtiophoraOtiophora is a genus of moths of the Crambidae family.-Species:*Otiophora clavifera *Otiophora leucotypa *Otiophora leucura...
Zucc.Joseph Gerhard ZuccariniJoseph Gerhard Zuccarini was a German botanist, Professor of Botany at the University of München. He worked extensively with Philipp Franz von Siebold, assisting in describing his collections from Japan, but also described plants discovered in other areas, including Mexico.-References:... - *Otocalyx Brandegee
- Otomeria Benth.George BenthamGeorge Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
- Ottoschmidtia Urb.Ignatz UrbanIgnatz Urban was a German botanist. He is known for his contributions to the flora of the Caribbean and Brazil, and for his work as curator of the Berlin Botanical Garden. Born the son of a brewer, Urban showed an interest in botany as an undergraduate...
- OxyanthusOxyanthusOxyanthus is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Oxyanthus montanus, Sonké* Oxyanthus okuensis, M. Cheek & Sonke...
DC. - Oxyceros Lour.João de LoureiroJoão de Loureiro was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary, paleontologist, physician and botanist.In 1742 he travelled to Cochinchina, remaining there for 30 years. He became a specialist in Asian flora and on his return published Flora Cochinchinensis .- References :...
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- *PachystigmaPachystigmaPachystigma was a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family but is no longer recognized. In 2005, it was sunk into synonymy with Vangueria, based on a phylogenetic study of DNA sequences....
Hochst.Christian Ferdinand Friedrich HochstetterChristian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter was a German botanist and Protestant minister who was a native of Stuttgart. He was the father of geologist Ferdinand Hochstetter .... - Pachystylus K.Schum.Karl Moritz SchumannKarl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...
- PaederiaPaederiaPaederia is a genus of flowering plants in the madder family, Rubiaceae. They are commonly known as Sewer Vines because of the strong odours exuded when their leaves or stems are crushed or bruised.-Species:...
L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology... - Pagamea Aubl.Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée AubletJean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet was a French pharmacist, botanist and explorer.Born in Salon-de-Provence, he joined the French East India Company and in 1752 was sent to Mauritius to establish a pharmacy and a botanical garden. He worked there for nine years...
- Pagameopsis Steyerm.Julian Alfred SteyermarkJulian Alfred Steyermark was an American botanist. His focus was on New World vegetation, and he specialized in the family Rubiaceae.- Life and work :...
- PalicoureaPalicoureaPalicourea is a plant genus in the family Rubiaceae. It contains about 200 species, which range in habit from shrubs to small trees, and is distributed throughout the New World tropics....
Aubl.Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée AubletJean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet was a French pharmacist, botanist and explorer.Born in Salon-de-Provence, he joined the French East India Company and in 1752 was sent to Mauritius to establish a pharmacy and a botanical garden. He worked there for nine years... - *Pamplethantha Bremek.
- *Panchezia Montrouz.Jean Xavier Hyacinthe MontrouzierReverendus Pater Jean Xavier Hyacinthe Montrouzier was a French Marist priest, explorer, botanist, zoologist and entomologist.Abbé Montrouzier studied the flora and fauna of Melanesia especially New Caledonia.-Works:...
- *Paolia Chiov.Emilio ChiovendaEmilio Chiovenda was an Italian botanist.He collected in Italy, Eritrea and Ethiopia, especially the he Ruwenzori Mountains, from 1893 to 1909....
- Paracephaelis Baill.Henri Ernest BaillonHenri Ernest Baillon was a French botanist and physician. He was born in Calais on November 30, 1827 and died in Paris on July 19, 1895.Baillon spent his professional life as a professor of natural history, and he published numerous works on botany...
- Parachimarrhis DuckeAdolpho DuckeAdolpho Ducke , also referred to as Adolfo Ducke and occasionally mis-spelled "Duque", was a notable entomologist, botanist and ethnographer of Amazonia....
- *Paracoffea J.-F.Leroy
- Paracorynanthe CapuronRené Paul Raymond CapuronRené Paul Raymond Capuron was a French botanist. Capuron was responsible for an extensive amount of work on the tree flora of Madagascar.- Works :Highlights of his work include:* M...
- Paragenipa Baill.Henri Ernest BaillonHenri Ernest Baillon was a French botanist and physician. He was born in Calais on November 30, 1827 and died in Paris on July 19, 1895.Baillon spent his professional life as a professor of natural history, and he published numerous works on botany...
- *Paragophyton K.Schum.Karl Moritz SchumannKarl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...
- Paraknoxia Bremek.
- Parapentas Bremek.
- *Paratriaina Bremek.
- PauridianthaPauridianthaPauridiantha is an afrotropical genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Pauridiantha afzelii, Bremek.* Pauridiantha bequaertii, Bremek.* Pauridiantha bridelioides, Verdc....
Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend... - PausinystaliaPausinystaliaPausinystalia, formerly known as Corynanthe is a largely African genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. At least one species in the genus contains a powerful alkaloid known as yohimbine used in some herbal remedies, that being Pausinystalia yohimbe...
Pierre ex Beille - *Patabea Aubl.Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée AubletJean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet was a French pharmacist, botanist and explorer.Born in Salon-de-Provence, he joined the French East India Company and in 1752 was sent to Mauritius to establish a pharmacy and a botanical garden. He worked there for nine years...
- *Pavate Adans.Michel AdansonMichel Adanson was a French naturalist of Scottish descent.Adanson was born at Aix-en-Provence. His family moved to Paris on 1730. After leaving the College Sainte Barbe he was employed in the cabinets of R. A. F. Reaumur and Bernard de Jussieu, as well as in the Jardin des Plantes. At the end of...
- PavettaPavettaPavetta is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It comprises about 350 species of trees, evergreen shrubs and sub-shrubs. It is found in woodlands, grasslands and thickets in sub-tropical and tropical Africa and Asia. The plants are cultivated for their simple but variable leaves,...
L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology... - Payera Baill.Henri Ernest BaillonHenri Ernest Baillon was a French botanist and physician. He was born in Calais on November 30, 1827 and died in Paris on July 19, 1895.Baillon spent his professional life as a professor of natural history, and he published numerous works on botany...
- *Pelagodendron Seem.Berthold Carl SeemannBerthold Carl Seemann 25 February 1825 Hanover, Germany - 10 October 1871 Nicaragua, Central America, was a German botanist. He travelled widely and collected and described plants from the Pacific and South America....
- Pentagonia Benth.George BenthamGeorge Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
- Pentaloncha Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
- Pentanisia Harv.William Henry HarveyWilliam Henry Harvey was an Irish botanist who specialised in algae.- Biography :William Henry Harvey was born at Summerville near Limerick, Ireland, in 1811, the youngest of 11 children. His father Joseph Massey Harvey, was a Quaker and prominent merchant...
- Pentanopsis RendleAlfred Barton RendleAlfred Barton Rendle FRS was an English botanist.Rendle was born in Lewisham and studied at St John's College, Cambridge...
- PentasPentasPentas is a genus of the Rubiaceae family of flowering plants. Pentas lanceolata is a particularly popular species. The plants have dark green, lance-shaped, somewhat furry and deeply veined leaves providing a backdrop for prolific clusters of never-ending, five-petaled flowers. These may be red,...
Benth.George BenthamGeorge Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :... - PentodonPentodonPentodon is a genus of plants belonging to the family Rubiaceae. There appear to be only two species in the genus. They are found in Central America, Central and Southern Africa and the Seychelles....
Hochst.Christian Ferdinand Friedrich HochstetterChristian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter was a German botanist and Protestant minister who was a native of Stuttgart. He was the father of geologist Ferdinand Hochstetter .... - PeponidiumPeponidiumPeponidium is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It is native to the Comoros and Madagascar.-Species:* Peponidium alleizettei Razafim., Lantz & B.Bremer...
(Baill.Henri Ernest BaillonHenri Ernest Baillon was a French botanist and physician. He was born in Calais on November 30, 1827 and died in Paris on July 19, 1895.Baillon spent his professional life as a professor of natural history, and he published numerous works on botany...
) Arènes - PerakanthusPerakanthusPerakanthus is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. The genus contains only one species, i.e. Perakanthus velutinus, which is endemic to Malaysia....
RobynsFrans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter RobynsFrans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns, known as Walter Robyns, was a Belgian botanist.After two long stays in Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, travels in central Africa and taxonomic work on many groups of tropical African plants, amongst others Rubiaceae, grasses and legumes, he became director of... - Perama Aubl.Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée AubletJean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet was a French pharmacist, botanist and explorer.Born in Salon-de-Provence, he joined the French East India Company and in 1752 was sent to Mauritius to establish a pharmacy and a botanical garden. He worked there for nine years...
- *Peratanthe Urb.Ignatz UrbanIgnatz Urban was a German botanist. He is known for his contributions to the flora of the Caribbean and Brazil, and for his work as curator of the Berlin Botanical Garden. Born the son of a brewer, Urban showed an interest in botany as an undergraduate...
- Peripeplus Pierre
- Pertusadina Ridsdale`
- *Petagomoa Bremek.
- Petitiocodon Robbr.
- *PhallariaPhallariaPhallaria is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.-References:*...
Schumach.Heinrich Christian Friedrich SchumacherHeinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher , was a Danish surgeon, botanist and professor of anatomy at the University of Copenhagen...
& Thonn.Peter ThonningPeter Thonning was a Danish physician and botanist.He was sent to Ghana by the Danish government to supervise the plantations of that colony, and he lived there from 1799 to 1803. His herbarium was destroyed during the shelling of Copenhagen by the British in 1807... - Phellocalyx Bridson
- PhialanthusPhialanthusPhialanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the coffee family, Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Phialanthus jamaicensis, Urb.* Phialanthus revolutus, Urb....
Griseb. - PhialiphoraPhialiphoraPhialiphora is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family....
Groeninckx - Phitopis Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
- Phuopsis (Griseb.) Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
- Phyllacanthus Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
- Phyllis L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...
- Phyllocrater Wernham
- Phyllomelia Griseb.
- Phylohydrax Puff
- *Phyteumoides Smeathman ex DC.
- Picardaea Urb.Ignatz UrbanIgnatz Urban was a German botanist. He is known for his contributions to the flora of the Caribbean and Brazil, and for his work as curator of the Berlin Botanical Garden. Born the son of a brewer, Urban showed an interest in botany as an undergraduate...
- Pimentelia Wedd.Hugh Algernon WeddellHugh Algernon Weddell was a physician and botanist, specialising in South American flora.Weddell was born at Birches House, Painswick near Gloucester, England but was raised in France and educated at the Lycée Henri IV, where he received a medical degree in 1841...
- Pinarophyllon Brandegee
- Pinckneya Michx.André MichauxAndré Michaux was a French botanist and explorer.-Biography:Michaux was born in Satory, now part of Versailles, Yvelines. After the death of his wife within a year of their marriage he took up the study of botany and was a student of Bernard de Jussieu...
- *Piringa Juss.Antoine Laurent de JussieuAntoine Laurent de Jussieu was a French botanist, notable as the first to propose a natural classification of flowering plants; much of his system remains in use today.-Life:...
- *Pittierothamnus Steyerm.Julian Alfred SteyermarkJulian Alfred Steyermark was an American botanist. His focus was on New World vegetation, and he specialized in the family Rubiaceae.- Life and work :...
- Pittoniotis Griseb.
- Placocarpa Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
- *PlacopodaPlacopodaPlacopoda is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Placopoda virgata, Balf. f....
Balf.f.Isaac Bayley BalfourSir Isaac Bayley Balfour FRS FRSE was a Scottish botanist. He was the son of John Hutton Balfour who was also a botanist.-Biography:... - *Platanocarpum Korth.Pieter Willem KorthalsPieter Willem Korthals was a Dutch botanist. Korthals was the official botanist with the Dutch East India Service from 1831 to 1836....
- *Platanocephalus Vaill.Sébastien VaillantSébastien Vaillant was a French botanist.Vaillant was born at Vigny, Val d'Oise. He studied medicine at Pontoise, and then moved to Paris to practice as a surgeon, where he studied botany at the Jardin des Plantes under Joseph Pitton de Tournefort.Vaillant was appointed to the staff of the Jardin...
ex CrantzHeinrich Johann Nepomuk von CrantzHeinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz was a botanist and a physician.He obtained his doctorate of medicine in Vienna in 1750... - Platycarpum Humb. & Bonpl.
- *Plectronia L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...
- PlectroniellaPlectroniellaPlectroniella is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It was descripted by Walter Robyns in 1928. The genus contains only one species, i.e. Plectroniella armata, which is found in southern Mozambique and nordeastern South Africa. The species is characterized by the...
RobynsFrans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter RobynsFrans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns, known as Walter Robyns, was a Belgian botanist.After two long stays in Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, travels in central Africa and taxonomic work on many groups of tropical African plants, amongst others Rubiaceae, grasses and legumes, he became director of... - *Pleimeris Raf.
- Pleiocarpidia K.Schum.Karl Moritz SchumannKarl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...
- Pleiocoryne Rauschert
- Pleiocraterium Bremek.
- *Pleureia Raf.
- *Pleurocoffea Baill.Henri Ernest BaillonHenri Ernest Baillon was a French botanist and physician. He was born in Calais on November 30, 1827 and died in Paris on July 19, 1895.Baillon spent his professional life as a professor of natural history, and he published numerous works on botany...
- PlocamaPlocamaPlocama is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It was described by William Aiton in 1789. It is found from the Canary Islands to northwestern India.-Species:* Plocama afghanica M.Backlund & Thulin...
AitonWilliam AitonWilliam Aiton was a Scottish botanist.Aiton was born near Hamilton. Having been regularly trained to the profession of a gardener, he travelled to London in 1754, and became assistant to Philip Miller, then superintendent of the Chelsea Physic Garden... - Plocaniophyllon Brandegee
- Poecilocalyx Bremek.
- *Pogonanthus Montrouz.Jean Xavier Hyacinthe MontrouzierReverendus Pater Jean Xavier Hyacinthe Montrouzier was a French Marist priest, explorer, botanist, zoologist and entomologist.Abbé Montrouzier studied the flora and fauna of Melanesia especially New Caledonia.-Works:...
- PogonolobusPogonolobusPogonolobus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is monotypic, being represented by the single species Pogonolobus reticulatus . It is endemic to eastern and northern Meganesia...
F.Muell.Ferdinand von MuellerBaron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, KCMG was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist.-Early life:... - Pogonopus KlotzschJohann Friedrich KlotzschJohann Friedrich Klotzsch was a German pharmacist and botanist.His principal work was in the field of mycology, with the study and description of many species of mushroom.-Selected works:...
- *Polyozus Lour.João de LoureiroJoão de Loureiro was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary, paleontologist, physician and botanist.In 1742 he travelled to Cochinchina, remaining there for 30 years. He became a specialist in Asian flora and on his return published Flora Cochinchinensis .- References :...
- PolysphaeriaPolysphaeriaPolysphaeria is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Polysphaeria macrantha, Brenan...
Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend... - Polyura Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
- Pomax Sol. ex DC.
- Porterandia Ridl.Henry Nicholas RidleyHenry Nicholas Ridley CMG , MA , FRS, FLS, F.R.H.S. was an English botanist and geologist.Born at West Harling Hall, Norfolk, England...
- PortlandiaPortlandia (genus)Portlandia is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae endemic to Jamaica. It contains the following species, among others:*Portlandia albiflora*Portlandia grandiflora*Portlandia harrisii*Portlandia hexandra*Portlandia speciosa...
P.BrownePatrick BrownePatrick Browne was an Irish physician and botanist.-Career:Browne was born in Woodstock, County Mayo, sent to relatives on Antigua in 1737 and returned to Europe due to ill health after two years. He studied medicine, natural history and especially botany at Reims, Paris and Leyden, qualifying... - Posoqueria Aubl.Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée AubletJean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet was a French pharmacist, botanist and explorer.Born in Salon-de-Provence, he joined the French East India Company and in 1752 was sent to Mauritius to establish a pharmacy and a botanical garden. He worked there for nine years...
- Pouchetia A.RichAchille RichardAchille Richard was a French botanist and physician .He was son of a notable botanist, Louis-Claude Marie Richard .Pharmacist in the French fleet and member of several well-known societies of their time....
ex DC. - Praravinia Korth.Pieter Willem KorthalsPieter Willem Korthals was a Dutch botanist. Korthals was the official botanist with the Dutch East India Service from 1831 to 1836....
- Pravinaria Bremek.
- Preussiodora Keay
- PrismatomerisPrismatomerisPrismatomeris is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Prismatomeris andamanica, Ridley...
Thwaites - *Proscephaleium Korth.Pieter Willem KorthalsPieter Willem Korthals was a Dutch botanist. Korthals was the official botanist with the Dutch East India Service from 1831 to 1836....
- Psathura Comm. ex A.Juss.Adrien-Henri de JussieuAdrien-Henri de Jussieu was a French botanist.Born in Paris as the son of botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1824 with a treatise of the plant family Euphorbiaceae. When his father retired in 1826, he succeeded him at the Jardin des Plantes; in...
- Pseudaidia Tirveng.
- *Pseudixora Miq.Friedrich Anton Wilhelm MiquelFriedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel was a Dutch botanist.He was head of the botanical gardens at Rotterdam , Amsterdam and Utrecht . He directed the Rijksherbarium at Leiden from 1862...
- *Pseudocinchona A.Chev.Auguste Jean Baptiste ChevalierAuguste Jean Baptiste Chevalier was a French botanist, taxonomist, and explorer of tropical Africa, especially of French colonial empire Africa and Côte d'Ivoire. He also explored and collected plants in South America and tropical Asia...
ex Perrot - *Pseudogaillonia Linchevskii
- *Pseudogardenia Keay
- Pseudohamelia Wernham
- Pseudomantalania J.-F.Leroy
- Pseudomussaenda Wernham
- Pseudonesohedyotis Tennant
- *PseudopeponidiumPseudopeponidiumPseudopeponidium was a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family but is no longer recognized. It was sunk into synonymy with Pyrostria....
Arènes - Pseudopyxis Miq.Friedrich Anton Wilhelm MiquelFriedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel was a Dutch botanist.He was head of the botanical gardens at Rotterdam , Amsterdam and Utrecht . He directed the Rijksherbarium at Leiden from 1862...
- *PseudosabiceaPseudosabiceaPseudosabicea is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Pseudosabicea batesii, N.Hallé* Pseudosabicea medusula, N.Hallé...
N.Hallé - *Psilanthopsis A.Chev.Auguste Jean Baptiste ChevalierAuguste Jean Baptiste Chevalier was a French botanist, taxonomist, and explorer of tropical Africa, especially of French colonial empire Africa and Côte d'Ivoire. He also explored and collected plants in South America and tropical Asia...
- *Psilanthus Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
- *Psilobium Jack
- *PsilostomaPsilostomaPsilostoma was a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family but is no longer recognized. It was originally described in 1837. The genus contained only one species, i.e. Psilostoma cilliata, from South Africa. It was sunk into synonymy with Canthium....
KlotzschJohann Friedrich KlotzschJohann Friedrich Klotzsch was a German pharmacist and botanist.His principal work was in the field of mycology, with the study and description of many species of mushroom.-Selected works:...
ex Eckl.Christian Friedrich EcklonChristian Friedrich Ecklon was a Danish botanical collector and apothecary.Ecklon collected extensively in South Africa. His first visit was in 1823, as first an apothecary's apprentice and then pharmacist, looking for plants with medicinal value...
& Zeyh.Karl Ludwig Philipp ZeyherKarl Ludwig Philipp Zeyher , was a botanical and insect collector who collected extensively in South Africa... - PsychotriaPsychotriaPsychotria is a plant genus of 1900 species in the family Rubiaceae. Members of the genus are low trees in tropical forests. The distinction between Psychotria and the genus Cephaelis are not well known and many species were formerly placed there....
L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology... - *Psychotrion St.-Lag.
- *Psychotrophum P.BrownePatrick BrownePatrick Browne was an Irish physician and botanist.-Career:Browne was born in Woodstock, County Mayo, sent to relatives on Antigua in 1737 and returned to Europe due to ill health after two years. He studied medicine, natural history and especially botany at Reims, Paris and Leyden, qualifying...
- PsydraxPsydraxPsydrax is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It consists of trees, shrubs, and a few lianas of the paleotropics.-Taxonomy:...
Gaertn.Joseph GaertnerJoseph Gaertner was a German botanist, best known for his work on seeds, De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum .... - Psyllocarpus Mart.Carl Friedrich Philipp von MartiusCarl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
& Zucc.Joseph Gerhard ZuccariniJoseph Gerhard Zuccarini was a German botanist, Professor of Botany at the University of München. He worked extensively with Philipp Franz von Siebold, assisting in describing his collections from Japan, but also described plants discovered in other areas, including Mexico.-References:... - Pteridocalyx Wernham
- *Pterogaillonia Linchevskii
- *Pterostephus C.Presl.
- Pubistylus Thoth.
- *Putoria Pers.
- PygmaeothamnusPygmaeothamnusPygmaeothamnus is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It was descripted by Walter Robyns in 1928 and originally held four species. It is found in central and southern Africa.-Species:* Pygmaeothamnus chamaedendrum Robyns...
RobynsFrans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter RobynsFrans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns, known as Walter Robyns, was a Belgian botanist.After two long stays in Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, travels in central Africa and taxonomic work on many groups of tropical African plants, amongst others Rubiaceae, grasses and legumes, he became director of... - Pyragra Bremek.
- PyrostriaPyrostriaPyrostria is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae.-Species:* Pyrostria affinis Bridson* Pyrostria alaotrensis Arènes ex Cavaco* Pyrostria alluaudii Arènes ex Cavaco...
Comm. ex A.Juss.Adrien-Henri de JussieuAdrien-Henri de Jussieu was a French botanist.Born in Paris as the son of botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1824 with a treatise of the plant family Euphorbiaceae. When his father retired in 1826, he succeeded him at the Jardin des Plantes; in...
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- Rachicallis DC.
- Ramosmania Tirveng. & Verdc.Bernard VerdcourtBernard Verdcourt was a biologist and taxonomist, most widely known as a botanist and latterly an Honorary Research Fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London. Prior to coming to Kew in 1964, he was associated with the East African Herbarium for 15 years...
- RandiaRandia (plant)Randia, commonly known as indigoberry, is a mostly neotropical genus of shrubs or small trees in the Rubiaceae. The International Plant Names Index lists a total of 738 names for the genus, synonyms included. Several Australian species have been reassigned to the genus Atractocarpus. These include...
L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology... - Raritebe Wernham
- *Ravnia Oerst.Anders Sandøe Ørsted (botanist)Anders Sandøe Ørsted, also written as Anders Sandoe Oersted or Anders Sandö Örsted was a Danish botanist, mycologist, zoologist and marine biologist. He was nephew of the brothers physicist H.C...
- RazafimandimbisoniaRazafimandimbisoniaRazafimandimbisonia is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It is endemic to Madagascar.-Taxonomy:The genus Alberta was shown to be paraphyletic in a phylogenetic analysis of the tribe Alberteae. The type species Alberta magna is set apart from the Malagasy Alberta species...
Kainul. & B.Bremer - Readea Gillespie
- *Relbunium (Endl.) Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
- RemijiaRemijiaRemijia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. Within the family, it is a member of the subfamily Cinchonoideae and the tribe Cinchoneae....
DC. - Rennellia Korth.Pieter Willem KorthalsPieter Willem Korthals was a Dutch botanist. Korthals was the official botanist with the Dutch East India Service from 1831 to 1836....
- Retiniphyllum Humb. & Bonpl.
- Rachicallis DC.
- Rhadinopus S.MooreSpencer Le Marchant MooreSpencer Le Marchant Moore was an English botanist.Moore was born in Hampstead. He worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from about 1870 to 1879, wrote a number of botanical papers, and then worked in an unofficial capacity at the Natural History Museum from 1896 until his death.Moore is...
- Rhaphidura Bremek.
- RhipidanthaRhipidanthaRhipidantha is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Rhipidantha chlorantha, Bremek....
Bremek. - *RhopalobrachiumRhopalobrachiumRhopalobrachium was a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family but is no longer recognized. It has been sunk into synonymy with Cyclophyllum. It was originally described by Rudolf Schlechter and Kurt Krause in 1908 to accommodate two New Caledonian species, R. congestum and R. fragrans...
Schltr. & K.Krause - *Rhyssocarpus Endl.
- RichardiaRichardiaRichardia is a small genus of about 15 species of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae, native to tropical to warm temperate regions of the Americas, with one species also native to Fiji in the Pacific Ocean. They are mostly annual plants, a few species being herbaceous perennial...
L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology... - Riqueuria Ruiz & Pav.José Antonio Pavón JiménezJosé Antonio Pavón Jiménez or José Antonio Pavón was a Spanish botanist known for researching the flora of Peru and Chile during an expedition under Carlos III from 1777 to 1788...
- RobynsiaRobynsiaRobynsia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It was descripted by John Hutchinson and was named after his friend and colleague Walter Robyns. The genus contains only one species, i.e. Robynsia glabrata, which is found in Ghana, Ivory Coast and Nigeria...
Hutch.John Hutchinson (botanist)John Hutchinson, OBE, FRS was a renowned English botanist, taxonomist and author.-Life and career:... - RogieraRogieraRogiera is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It has 15 species. Rogiera amoena, Rogiera cordata, and Rogiera gratissima are cultivated as ornamentals. The type species for the genus is Rogiera amoena....
Planch.Jules Émile PlanchonJules Émile Planchon was a French botanist born in Ganges, Hérault.-Biography:After receiving his Doctorate of Science at the University of Montpellier in 1844, he worked for a while at the Royal Botanical Gardens in London, and for a few years was a teacher in Nancy and Ghent... - Roigella Borhidi & M.Fernandez Zeq.
- *Rojoc Adans.Michel AdansonMichel Adanson was a French naturalist of Scottish descent.Adanson was born at Aix-en-Provence. His family moved to Paris on 1730. After leaving the College Sainte Barbe he was employed in the cabinets of R. A. F. Reaumur and Bernard de Jussieu, as well as in the Jardin des Plantes. At the end of...
- Ronabea Aubl.Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée AubletJean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet was a French pharmacist, botanist and explorer.Born in Salon-de-Provence, he joined the French East India Company and in 1752 was sent to Mauritius to establish a pharmacy and a botanical garden. He worked there for nine years...
- *Ronabia St.-Lag.
- RondeletiaRondeletia (plant)Rondeletia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to the neotropics. There are around 160 species.Rondeletia odorata is widely grown as an ornamental. Several other species are also known in cultivation....
L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology... - Rosenbergiodendron Fagerl.
- RothmanniaRothmanniaRothmannia is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. The following incomplete list shows some of the species:* Rothmannia annae Keay* Rothmannia attopevensis* Rothmannia capensis Thunb....
Thunb.Carl Peter ThunbergCarl Peter Thunberg aka Carl Pehr Thunberg aka Carl Per Thunberg was a Swedish naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. He has been called "the father of South African botany" and the "Japanese Linnaeus".... - RubiaRubiáaRubiá is a municipality in the Spanish province of Ourense. It has a population of 1734 and an area of 101 km²....
L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology... - RudgeaRudgeaRudgea is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae.Species include:* Rudgea crassifolia, Zappi & E.Lucas* Rudgea microcarpa, Standl.* Rudgea obesiflora, Standl.* Rudgea stenophylla, Standl....
Salisb.Richard Anthony SalisburyRichard Anthony Salisbury FRS was a British botanist. While he is remembered as a valuable worker in horticultural and botanical sciences, several bitter disputes caused him to be ostracised by his contemporaries.-Life:... - RustiaRustiaRustia is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Rustia alba, Delprete* Rustia bilsana, Delprete* Rustia viridiflora, Delprete...
KlotzschJohann Friedrich KlotzschJohann Friedrich Klotzsch was a German pharmacist and botanist.His principal work was in the field of mycology, with the study and description of many species of mushroom.-Selected works:... - RutideaRutideaRutidea is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Rutidea nigerica, Bridson...
DC. - RytigyniaRytigyniaRytigynia is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It is found in tropical and southern Africa. The genera Rytigynia and Fadogia form a strongly supported clade but neither of these genera is monophyletic.-Species:...
BlumeCarl Ludwig BlumeCharles Ludwig de Blume or Karl Ludwig von Blume was a German-Dutch botanist.He was born at Braunschweig in Germany, but studied at Leiden University and spent his professional life working in the Dutch East Indies and in the Netherlands, where he was Director of the Rijksherbarium at Leiden...
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- SabiceaSabiceaSabicea is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Sabicea cinerea, Aubl. * Sabicea pyramidalis, L. Andersson* Sabicea stenantha, K.Krause...
Aubl.Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée AubletJean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet was a French pharmacist, botanist and explorer.Born in Salon-de-Provence, he joined the French East India Company and in 1752 was sent to Mauritius to establish a pharmacy and a botanical garden. He worked there for nine years... - Sacosperma G.TaylorGeorge Taylor (botanist)Sir George Taylor FRS FRSE FLS was a Scottish botanist.Taylor was Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 1956–71.- References :...
- *Sahlbergia Neck.
- Saldinia A.RichAchille RichardAchille Richard was a French botanist and physician .He was son of a notable botanist, Louis-Claude Marie Richard .Pharmacist in the French fleet and member of several well-known societies of their time....
ex DC. - Salzmannia DC.
- *Samama Rumph.Georg Eberhard RumphiusGeorg Eberhard Rumphius or originally Rumpf was a German-born botanist employed by the Dutch East India Company in what is now eastern Indonesia, and is best known for his work, Herbarium Amboinense....
ex Kuntze - SaprosmaSaprosmaSaprosma is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Saprosma anisophylla, Merr.* Saprosma annamense, Pierre ex Pit.* Saprosma arboreum, Blume...
BlumeCarl Ludwig BlumeCharles Ludwig de Blume or Karl Ludwig von Blume was a German-Dutch botanist.He was born at Braunschweig in Germany, but studied at Leiden University and spent his professional life working in the Dutch East Indies and in the Netherlands, where he was Director of the Rijksherbarium at Leiden... - SarcocephalusSarcocephalusSarcocephalus is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It holds two species of shrubs or trees native to tropical Africa. Sarcocephalus latifolius has edible fruits known as African peach, Guinea peach, Sierra Leone peach or Country fig....
Afzel.Adam AfzeliusAdam Afzelius was a Swedish botanist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Afzelius was born at Larv in Västergötland in 1750. He was appointed teacher of oriental languages at Uppsala University in 1777, and in 1785 demonstrator of botany...
ex R.Br.Robert Brown (botanist)Robert Brown was a Scottish botanist and palaeobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope... - Sarcopygme Setch. & Christoph.Erling ChristophersenErling Christophersen was a Norwegian botanist, geographer and diplomat. He participated in and led several notable scientific expeditions in the 20th century, including the fifth Tanager Expedition to Nihoa and Necker Island and the Norwegian Scientific Expedition to Tristan da Cunha .-Early...
- *Scepseothamnus Cham.Adelbert von ChamissoAdelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...
- *Schachtia H.Karst.Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann KarstenGustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten was a German botanist and geologist. Born in Stralsund, he followed the example of Alexander von Humboldt and traveled 1844-56 to the north of South America. He died 1908 in Berlin-Grunewald....
- *Schettii Adans.Michel AdansonMichel Adanson was a French naturalist of Scottish descent.Adanson was born at Aix-en-Provence. His family moved to Paris on 1730. After leaving the College Sainte Barbe he was employed in the cabinets of R. A. F. Reaumur and Bernard de Jussieu, as well as in the Jardin des Plantes. At the end of...
- Schismatoclada BakerJohn Gilbert BakerJohn Gilbert Baker was an English botanist.Baker was born in Guisborough, the son of John and Mary Baker and educated at Quaker schools in Ackworth and York....
- Schizenterospermum Homolle ex Arènes
- *Schizocalyx Wedd.Hugh Algernon WeddellHugh Algernon Weddell was a physician and botanist, specialising in South American flora.Weddell was born at Birches House, Painswick near Gloucester, England but was raised in France and educated at the Lycée Henri IV, where he received a medical degree in 1841...
- Schizocolea Bremek.
- Schizomussaenda H.L.Li
- Schizostigma Arn. ex Meisn.Carl MeissnerCarl Daniel Friedrich Meissner was a Swiss botanist.Born in Bern, Switzerland on 1 November 1800, he was christened Meisner but later changed the spelling of his name to Meissner. For most of his 40 year career he was Professor of Botany at University of Basel...
- Schmidtottia Urb.Ignatz UrbanIgnatz Urban was a German botanist. He is known for his contributions to the flora of the Caribbean and Brazil, and for his work as curator of the Berlin Botanical Garden. Born the son of a brewer, Urban showed an interest in botany as an undergraduate...
- SchraderaSchraderaSchradera is a genus of plants in the Rubiaceae family....
VahlMartin VahlMartin Henrichsen Vahl was a Danish-Norwegian botanist and zoologist.He studied botany in Copenhagen and in Uppsala under Carolus Linnaeus. He edited Flora Danica fasc. XVI-XXI , Symbolæ Botanicæ I-III , Eclogæ Americanæ I-IV and Enumeratio Plantarum I-II... - SchumanniophytonSchumanniophytonSchumanniophyton is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Schumanniophyton problematicum, Aubrev....
HarmsHermann HarmsHermann August Theodor Harms was a German taxonomist and botanist. In 1938 he revised the pitcher plant genus Nepenthes, dividing it into three subgenera: Anurosperma, Eunepenthes and Mesonepenthes.... - Schwendenera K.Schum.Karl Moritz SchumannKarl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...
- *Sclerococcus Bartl.Friedrich Gottlieb BartlingFriedrich Gottlieb Bartling was a German botanist who was a native of Hanover.He studied natural sciences at the University of Göttingen, and in 1818 took a botanical journey through Hungary and Croatia. In 1822 he became a lecturer at Göttingen, where he later became a professor, and in 1837 was...
- *Scleromitrion (WightRobert WightRobert Wight was a Scottish surgeon and botanist who spent 30 years in India. He studied botany in Edinburgh under John Hope. He was the director of the Botanic Garden in Madras. He made use of local artists to make illustrations of the plants around him...
& Arn.) Meisn.Carl MeissnerCarl Daniel Friedrich Meissner was a Swiss botanist.Born in Bern, Switzerland on 1 November 1800, he was christened Meisner but later changed the spelling of his name to Meissner. For most of his 40 year career he was Professor of Botany at University of Basel... - ScolosanthusScolosanthusScolosanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the coffee family, Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Scolosanthus howardii Borhidi...
VahlMartin VahlMartin Henrichsen Vahl was a Danish-Norwegian botanist and zoologist.He studied botany in Copenhagen and in Uppsala under Carolus Linnaeus. He edited Flora Danica fasc. XVI-XXI , Symbolæ Botanicæ I-III , Eclogæ Americanæ I-IV and Enumeratio Plantarum I-II... - Scyphiphora C.F.Gaertn.
- *ScyphochlamysScyphochlamysScyphochlamys was a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family but is no longer recognized. It was originally described by Isaac Bayley Balfour in 1877. The genus contained only one species, i.e. Scyphochlamys revoluta, which is found on Rodrigues, the smallest of the Mascarene...
Balf.f.Isaac Bayley BalfourSir Isaac Bayley Balfour FRS FRSE was a Scottish botanist. He was the son of John Hutton Balfour who was also a botanist.-Biography:... - Scyphostachys Thwaites
- SericantheSericantheSericanthe is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Sericanthe toupetou, E. Robbrecht...
Robbr. - SerissaSerissaSerissa is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae, containing only one species, Serissa foetida. It is native to open sub-tropical woodlands and wet meadows in southeast Asia, from India, and China to Japan...
Comm. ex A.Juss.Adrien-Henri de JussieuAdrien-Henri de Jussieu was a French botanist.Born in Paris as the son of botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1824 with a treatise of the plant family Euphorbiaceae. When his father retired in 1826, he succeeded him at the Jardin des Plantes; in... - Shaferocharis Urb.Ignatz UrbanIgnatz Urban was a German botanist. He is known for his contributions to the flora of the Caribbean and Brazil, and for his work as curator of the Berlin Botanical Garden. Born the son of a brewer, Urban showed an interest in botany as an undergraduate...
- SherardiaSherardiaSherardia is a monotypic genus containing a single species, Sherardia arvensis , which is a flowering plant in the Rubiaceae family. It is native to Europe, northern Africa and southwest Asia. Sherardia arvensis is closely related to the bedstraws...
L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology... - Sherbournia G.DonGeorge DonGeorge Don was a Scottish botanist.George Don was born at Doo Hillock, Forfar, Angus, Scotland on 29 April 1797. His father, also named George Don, was Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in 1802 and his mother was Caroline Clementina Stuart. George was the elder brother of David...
- *Sickingia Willd.
- *Siderobombyx Bremek.
- *Siderodendrum Schreb.Johann Christian Daniel von SchreberJohann Christian Daniel von Schreber , often styled I.C.D. von Schreber, was a German naturalist.-Career:He was elected Professor of Materia medica at the University of Erlangen in 1769....
- *Sideroxyloides Jacq.Nikolaus Joseph von JacquinNikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin or Baron Nikolaus von Jacquin. was a scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany....
- Siemensia Urb.Ignatz UrbanIgnatz Urban was a German botanist. He is known for his contributions to the flora of the Caribbean and Brazil, and for his work as curator of the Berlin Botanical Garden. Born the son of a brewer, Urban showed an interest in botany as an undergraduate...
- SimiraSimiraSimira is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Simira standleyi, Steyerm.* Simira wurdackii, Steyerm....
Aubl.Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée AubletJean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet was a French pharmacist, botanist and explorer.Born in Salon-de-Provence, he joined the French East India Company and in 1752 was sent to Mauritius to establish a pharmacy and a botanical garden. He worked there for nine years... - Sinoadina Ridsdale
- Sipanea Aubl.Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée AubletJean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet was a French pharmacist, botanist and explorer.Born in Salon-de-Provence, he joined the French East India Company and in 1752 was sent to Mauritius to establish a pharmacy and a botanical garden. He worked there for nine years...
- Sipaneopsis Steyerm.Julian Alfred SteyermarkJulian Alfred Steyermark was an American botanist. His focus was on New World vegetation, and he specialized in the family Rubiaceae.- Life and work :...
- Siphonandrium K.Schum.Karl Moritz SchumannKarl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...
- *Solenandra Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
- *Solenixora Baill.Henri Ernest BaillonHenri Ernest Baillon was a French botanist and physician. He was born in Calais on November 30, 1827 and died in Paris on July 19, 1895.Baillon spent his professional life as a professor of natural history, and he published numerous works on botany...
- Sommera Schltdl.Diederich Franz Leonhard von SchlechtendalDiederich von Schlechtendal was a German botanist born in Xanten. He was Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Gardens at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1833 until his death in 1866, and Editor of the botanical journal Linnaea.His most important work was in...
- *SpallanzaniaSpallanzaniaSpallanzania is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.-Species:*S. colludens Reinhard, 1958*S. finitima *S. floridana *S. griseiventris Herting, 1967*S. hebes...
DC. - Spathichlamys R.Parker
- SpermacoceSpermacoceSpermacoce is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It comprises about 275 species found throughout the tropics and subtropics...
L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology... - *Spermacoceodes Kuntze
- Spermadictyon Roxb.William RoxburghWilliam Roxburgh was a Scottish surgeon and botanist. He has been called the Father of Indian Botany.-Early life:Roxburgh was born at Underwood in the parish of Craigie, Ayrshire. He studied medicine in Edinburgh...
- *Sphaerophora BlumeCarl Ludwig BlumeCharles Ludwig de Blume or Karl Ludwig von Blume was a German-Dutch botanist.He was born at Braunschweig in Germany, but studied at Leiden University and spent his professional life working in the Dutch East Indies and in the Netherlands, where he was Director of the Rijksherbarium at Leiden...
- Sphinctanthus Benth.George BenthamGeorge Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
- Spiradiclis BlumeCarl Ludwig BlumeCharles Ludwig de Blume or Karl Ludwig von Blume was a German-Dutch botanist.He was born at Braunschweig in Germany, but studied at Leiden University and spent his professional life working in the Dutch East Indies and in the Netherlands, where he was Director of the Rijksherbarium at Leiden...
- Squamellaria Becc.Odoardo BeccariOdoardo Beccari was an Italian naturalist perhaps best known for discovering the titan arum, the plant with the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world, in Sumatra in 1878...
- Stachyarrhena Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
- Stachyococcus Standl.Paul Carpenter StandleyPaul Carpenter Standley was an American botanist.Standley was born in Avalon, Missouri...
- Staelia Cham.Adelbert von ChamissoAdelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...
& Schltdl.Diederich Franz Leonhard von SchlechtendalDiederich von Schlechtendal was a German botanist born in Xanten. He was Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Gardens at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1833 until his death in 1866, and Editor of the botanical journal Linnaea.His most important work was in... - Standleya BradeAlexander Curt BradeAlexander Curt Brade was a German botanist who specialized in the study of the orchids and ferns of Brazil. Brade also realized an important and early series of collections of the flora of Costa Rica between 1908 and 1910 with his brother Alfred, who lived in San Jose and owned a horticultural...
- Steenisia Bakh.f.
- StelechanthaStelechanthaStelechantha is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Stelechantha arcuata, S.E.Dawson...
Bremek. - *Stellix Noronha
- Stenaria (Raf.) Terrell
- Stenostomum C.F.Gaertn.
- Stephanococcus Bremek.
- Stevensia Poit.Pierre Antoine Poiteau-Biography:He was born in Ambleny, France. After having worked in kitchen gardens and for the Parisian market gardeners, he was appointed by André Thouin garçon jardinier in 1790 at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle of Paris...
- Steyermarkia Standl.Paul Carpenter StandleyPaul Carpenter Standley was an American botanist.Standley was born in Avalon, Missouri...
- Stichianthus Valeton
- *Stigmanthus Lour.João de LoureiroJoão de Loureiro was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary, paleontologist, physician and botanist.In 1742 he travelled to Cochinchina, remaining there for 30 years. He became a specialist in Asian flora and on his return published Flora Cochinchinensis .- References :...
- StilpnophyllumStilpnophyllumStilpnophyllum is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Stilpnophyllum grandifolium, L.Andersson...
Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend... - Stipularia P.Beauv.
- *Stomandra Standl.Paul Carpenter StandleyPaul Carpenter Standley was an American botanist.Standley was born in Avalon, Missouri...
- *Straussia A.GrayAsa Gray-References:*Asa Gray. Dictionary of American Biography. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928–1936.*Asa Gray. Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed. 17 Vols. Gale Research, 1998.*Asa Gray. Plant Sciences. 4 vols. Macmillan Reference USA, 2001....
- Streblosa Korth.Pieter Willem KorthalsPieter Willem Korthals was a Dutch botanist. Korthals was the official botanist with the Dutch East India Service from 1831 to 1836....
- Streblosiopsis Valeton
- *Strempelia A.Rich.Achille RichardAchille Richard was a French botanist and physician .He was son of a notable botanist, Louis-Claude Marie Richard .Pharmacist in the French fleet and member of several well-known societies of their time....
ex DC. - *Striolaria DuckeAdolpho DuckeAdolpho Ducke , also referred to as Adolfo Ducke and occasionally mis-spelled "Duque", was a notable entomologist, botanist and ethnographer of Amazonia....
- StrumpfiaStrumpfiaStrumpfia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It is monospecific and indigenous to the West Indies. It is an evergreen shrub of coastal areas that rarely exceeds in height....
Jacq.Nikolaus Joseph von JacquinNikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin or Baron Nikolaus von Jacquin. was a scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany.... - Stylosiphonia Brandegee
- *Stylocoryna Cav.Antonio José CavanillesAntonio José Cavanilles was a leading Spanish taxonomic botanist of the 18th century. He named many plants, particularly from Oceania, his name is abbreviated as Cav...
- *Stylocoryne WightRobert WightRobert Wight was a Scottish surgeon and botanist who spent 30 years in India. He studied botany in Edinburgh under John Hope. He was the director of the Botanic Garden in Madras. He made use of local artists to make illustrations of the plants around him...
& Arn. - Suberanthus Borhidi & M.Fernandez Zeq.
- *Sukunia A.C.Sm.Albert Charles SmithAlbert Charles Smith was an American botanist.-Life:He was a director of the National Museum of Natural History, and chaired several important scientific societies, such as the American Society of Plant Taxonomists....
- *Sulcanux Ridl.Henry Nicholas RidleyHenry Nicholas Ridley CMG , MA , FRS, FLS, F.R.H.S. was an English botanist and geologist.Born at West Harling Hall, Norfolk, England...
- *Sulipa BlancoFrancisco Manuel BlancoFrancisco Manuel Blanco was a Spanish friar and botanist.-Biography:He was a member of the Augustinian order. His first assignment was in Angat in the province of Bulacan in the Philippines. He subsequently had a variety different assignments...
- *Sulitia Merr.Elmer Drew MerrillElmer Drew Merrill was an American botanist, specializing in the flora of the Asia-Pacific region.He was born in East Auburn, Maine, and attended the University of Maine where he received a B.S. in 1898...
- *Suteria DC.
- *Symphyllarion Gagnep.François GagnepainFrançois Gagnepain was a French botanist. The standard botanical author abbreviation Gagnep. is applied to plants described by Gagnepain.-References:...
- Synaptantha Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
- Syringantha Standl.Paul Carpenter StandleyPaul Carpenter Standley was an American botanist.Standley was born in Avalon, Missouri...
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- Tamilnadia Tirveng. & Sastre
- Tammsia H.Karst.Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann KarstenGustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten was a German botanist and geologist. Born in Stralsund, he followed the example of Alexander von Humboldt and traveled 1844-56 to the north of South America. He died 1908 in Berlin-Grunewald....
- TamridaeaTamridaeaTamridaea is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Tamridaea capsulifera, Thulin & B.Bremer...
Thulin & B.Bremer - *TapiphyllumTapiphyllumTapiphyllum was a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family but is no longer recognized. In 2005, a molecular phylogenetic study showed that the type species, Tapiphyllum cinerascens, is more closely related to Vangueria than to Tapiphyllum obtusifolium and Tapiphyllum velutinum...
RobynsFrans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter RobynsFrans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns, known as Walter Robyns, was a Belgian botanist.After two long stays in Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, travels in central Africa and taxonomic work on many groups of tropical African plants, amongst others Rubiaceae, grasses and legumes, he became director of... - *Tapogomea Aubl.Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée AubletJean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet was a French pharmacist, botanist and explorer.Born in Salon-de-Provence, he joined the French East India Company and in 1752 was sent to Mauritius to establish a pharmacy and a botanical garden. He worked there for nine years...
- *Tardavel Adans.Michel AdansonMichel Adanson was a French naturalist of Scottish descent.Adanson was born at Aix-en-Provence. His family moved to Paris on 1730. After leaving the College Sainte Barbe he was employed in the cabinets of R. A. F. Reaumur and Bernard de Jussieu, as well as in the Jardin des Plantes. At the end of...
- TarennaTarennaTarenna is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Tarenna agumbensis, Sundararaghaven* Tarenna drummondii, Bridson* Tarenna luhomeroensis, Bridson...
Gaertn.Joseph GaertnerJoseph Gaertner was a German botanist, best known for his work on seeds, De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum .... - Tarennoidea Tirveng. & Sastre
- TemnocalyxTemnocalyxTemnocalyx is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It was originally described by Walter Robyns in 1928 and contained five species. Since then most of these species have been made synonym and currently only one species name remains valid, i.e. Temnocalyx nodulosa. The...
RobynsFrans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter RobynsFrans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns, known as Walter Robyns, was a Belgian botanist.After two long stays in Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, travels in central Africa and taxonomic work on many groups of tropical African plants, amongst others Rubiaceae, grasses and legumes, he became director of... - Temnopteryx Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
- Tennantia Verdc.Bernard VerdcourtBernard Verdcourt was a biologist and taxonomist, most widely known as a botanist and latterly an Honorary Research Fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London. Prior to coming to Kew in 1964, he was associated with the East African Herbarium for 15 years...
- Thamnoldenlandia Groeninckx
- *Thecorchus Bremek.
- Theligonum L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...
- *Thieleodoxa Cham.Adelbert von ChamissoAdelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...
- Thogsennia Aiello
- *Thouarsiora Homolle ex Arènes
- *Thunbergia Montin
- *Thyridocalyx Bremek.
- TimoniusTimoniusTimonius is a genus of plants in the family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Timonius jambosella, Thwaites* Timonius timon E.D. Merrill...
Rumph.Georg Eberhard RumphiusGeorg Eberhard Rumphius or originally Rumpf was a German-born botanist employed by the Dutch East India Company in what is now eastern Indonesia, and is best known for his work, Herbarium Amboinense....
ex DC. - Tobagoa Urb.Ignatz UrbanIgnatz Urban was a German botanist. He is known for his contributions to the flora of the Caribbean and Brazil, and for his work as curator of the Berlin Botanical Garden. Born the son of a brewer, Urban showed an interest in botany as an undergraduate...
- TocoyenaTocoyenaTocoyena is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Tocoyena pittieri, Standl....
Aubl.Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée AubletJean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet was a French pharmacist, botanist and explorer.Born in Salon-de-Provence, he joined the French East India Company and in 1752 was sent to Mauritius to establish a pharmacy and a botanical garden. He worked there for nine years... - Tortuella Urb.Ignatz UrbanIgnatz Urban was a German botanist. He is known for his contributions to the flora of the Caribbean and Brazil, and for his work as curator of the Berlin Botanical Garden. Born the son of a brewer, Urban showed an interest in botany as an undergraduate...
- Trailliaedoxa W.W.Sm.William Wright SmithSir William Wright Smith FRS FRSE DèsSc FLS VMH was a Scottish botanist and horticulturalist....
& ForrestGeorge Forrest (botanist)George Forrest was a Scottish botanist, who was one of the first explorers of China's then remote southwestern province of Yunnan, generally regarded as the most biodiverse province in the country.... - Tresanthera H.Karst.Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann KarstenGustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten was a German botanist and geologist. Born in Stralsund, he followed the example of Alexander von Humboldt and traveled 1844-56 to the north of South America. He died 1908 in Berlin-Grunewald....
- *Trevirania Heynh.Gustav HeynholdGustav Heynhold was a German botanist.In 1841, he renamed Arabis thaliana as Arabidopsis thaliana Heynh. in honour of Johannes Thal.His author abbreviation is Heynh.-Works:...
- Triainolepis Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
- TricalysiaTricalysiaTricalysia is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Tricalysia acidophylla, Robbrecht* Tricalysia africana, Robbr.* Tricalysia atherura, N.Hallé...
A.RichAchille RichardAchille Richard was a French botanist and physician .He was son of a notable botanist, Louis-Claude Marie Richard .Pharmacist in the French fleet and member of several well-known societies of their time....
ex DC. - *Trichogalium Fourr.
- TrichostachysTrichostachysTrichostachys is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species:* Trichostachys interrupta, K.Schum....
Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend... - Trigonopyren Bremek.
- *Trukia Kaneh.
- *Tsiangia But, H.H.Hsue & P.T.Li
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- *Ucriana Willd.
- *Uragoga Baill.Henri Ernest BaillonHenri Ernest Baillon was a French botanist and physician. He was born in Calais on November 30, 1827 and died in Paris on July 19, 1895.Baillon spent his professional life as a professor of natural history, and he published numerous works on botany...
- UncariaUncariaUncaria is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It has about 40 species. Their distribution is pantropical, with most species native to tropical Asia, three from Africa and the Mediterranean and two from the neotropics. They are known colloquially as Gambier, Cat's Claw or Uña de...
Schreb.Johann Christian Daniel von SchreberJohann Christian Daniel von Schreber , often styled I.C.D. von Schreber, was a German naturalist.-Career:He was elected Professor of Materia medica at the University of Erlangen in 1769.... - UrophyllumUrophyllumUrophyllum is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Urophyllum ellipticum, Thwaites...
Jack ex Wall.Nathaniel WallichNathaniel Wallich was a surgeon and botanist of Danish origin who worked in India initially in the Danish settlement near Calcutta and later joined the East India Company...
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- Valantia L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...
- VangueriaVangueriaVangueria is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae.-Distribution:The genus contains over 50 species distributed in Africa south of the Sahara with one species occurring in Madagascar . The centre of diversity is in East Africa and they are rare in West Africa.-Gousiekte:Several...
Juss.Antoine Laurent de JussieuAntoine Laurent de Jussieu was a French botanist, notable as the first to propose a natural classification of flowering plants; much of his system remains in use today.-Life:... - VangueriellaVangueriellaVangueriella is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. The genus is found in tropical Africa.-Taxonomy:It was originally described in 1987 by Bernard Verdcourt who transferred species from Vangueriopsis subgenus Brachyanthus to the newly erected genus. The genus has two sections, V....
Verdc.Bernard VerdcourtBernard Verdcourt was a biologist and taxonomist, most widely known as a botanist and latterly an Honorary Research Fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London. Prior to coming to Kew in 1964, he was associated with the East African Herbarium for 15 years... - VangueriopsisVangueriopsisVangueriopsis is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family.-Distribution:The genus is found in central and south tropical Africa .-Taxonomy:...
RobynsFrans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter RobynsFrans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns, known as Walter Robyns, was a Belgian botanist.After two long stays in Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, travels in central Africa and taxonomic work on many groups of tropical African plants, amongst others Rubiaceae, grasses and legumes, he became director of... - *Varneria L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...
- *VavangaVavangaVavanga was a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family but is no longer recognized. It was originally described by Julius von Röhr in 1792 to accommodate the species V. chinensis. A second species, V. edulis, was added by Martin Vahl. The species have been sunk into synonymy with Vangueria....
RohrJulius von RöhrJulius Philip Benjamin von Röhr was a Prussian-born botanist and plant collector, naturalist, medical doctor and watercolourist, in Danish service who sent many plants to Europe from South America and the West Indies... - *Versteegia Valeton
- *Verulamia DC. ex Poir.Jean Louis Marie PoiretJean Louis Marie Poiret was a French clergyman, botanist and explorer.From 1785 to 1786 he was sent by Louis XVI to Algeria to study the flora...
- Villaria Rolfe
- *Virecta Afzel.Adam AfzeliusAdam Afzelius was a Swedish botanist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Afzelius was born at Larv in Västergötland in 1750. He was appointed teacher of oriental languages at Uppsala University in 1777, and in 1785 demonstrator of botany...
ex SM.James Edward SmithSir James Edward Smith was an English botanist and founder of the Linnean Society.Smith was born in Norwich in 1759, the son of a wealthy wool merchant. He displayed a precocious interest in the natural world... - VirectariaVirectariaVirectaria is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. The genus, known as Virecta until 1952, consists exclusively of tropical African species. It is a Guineo-Congolian genus, having its highest diversity in Lower Guinea but it also occurs in the Zambezian Region. Verdcourt provided a...
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- *Wahlenbergia BlumeCarl Ludwig BlumeCharles Ludwig de Blume or Karl Ludwig von Blume was a German-Dutch botanist.He was born at Braunschweig in Germany, but studied at Leiden University and spent his professional life working in the Dutch East Indies and in the Netherlands, where he was Director of the Rijksherbarium at Leiden...
- *Warburgina Eig.
- *Warneria J.EllisJohn Ellis (naturalist)John Ellis FRS was a British linen merchant and naturalist.Ellis specialised in the study of corals. He was elected a member of the Royal Society in 1754 and in the following year published An essay towards the Natural History of the Corallines. He was awarded the Copley Medal in 1767...
- WarszewicziaWarszewicziaWarszewiczia is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It are primarily tropical Central and South American trees and shrubs. Perhaps the most famous member of the genus is W...
KlotzschJohann Friedrich KlotzschJohann Friedrich Klotzsch was a German pharmacist and botanist.His principal work was in the field of mycology, with the study and description of many species of mushroom.-Selected works:... - *Webera Schreb.Johann Christian Daniel von SchreberJohann Christian Daniel von Schreber , often styled I.C.D. von Schreber, was a German naturalist.-Career:He was elected Professor of Materia medica at the University of Erlangen in 1769....
- WendlandiaWendlandiaWendlandia is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Wendlandia andamanica, Cowan* Wendlandia angustifolia, Wight* Wendlandia arabica, DC....
Bartl.Friedrich Gottlieb BartlingFriedrich Gottlieb Bartling was a German botanist who was a native of Hanover.He studied natural sciences at the University of Göttingen, and in 1818 took a botanical journey through Hungary and Croatia. In 1822 he became a lecturer at Göttingen, where he later became a professor, and in 1837 was...
ex DC. - *Wernhamia S.MooreSpencer Le Marchant MooreSpencer Le Marchant Moore was an English botanist.Moore was born in Hampstead. He worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from about 1870 to 1879, wrote a number of botanical papers, and then worked in an unofficial capacity at the Natural History Museum from 1896 until his death.Moore is...
- Wittmackanthus Kuntze
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- Xanthophytum Reinw.Caspar Georg Carl ReinwardtCaspar Georg Carl Reinwardt was a Prussian-born Dutch botanist.Reinwardt was the founder and first director of agriculture of the botanic garden at Bogor in Java...
ex BlumeCarl Ludwig BlumeCharles Ludwig de Blume or Karl Ludwig von Blume was a German-Dutch botanist.He was born at Braunschweig in Germany, but studied at Leiden University and spent his professional life working in the Dutch East Indies and in the Netherlands, where he was Director of the Rijksherbarium at Leiden... - Xantonnea Pierre ex Pit.
- Xantonneopsis Pit.
- *Xerococcus Oerst.Anders Sandøe Ørsted (botanist)Anders Sandøe Ørsted, also written as Anders Sandoe Oersted or Anders Sandö Örsted was a Danish botanist, mycologist, zoologist and marine biologist. He was nephew of the brothers physicist H.C...
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- *Yangapa Raf.
- *Yutajea Steyerm.Julian Alfred SteyermarkJulian Alfred Steyermark was an American botanist. His focus was on New World vegetation, and he specialized in the family Rubiaceae.- Life and work :...