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List of plant genera named for people (D–J)

List of plant genera named for people (D–J)

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Since the first printing of Carl Linnaeus's Species Plantarum in 1753, plants have been assigned one epithet or name for their species and one name for their genus, a grouping of related species.[1] Thousands of plants have been named for people, including botanists and their colleagues, plant collectors, horticulturists, explorers, rulers, politicians, clerics, doctors, philosophers and scientists.[2] Even before Linnaeus, botanists such as Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Charles Plumier and Pier Antonio Micheli were naming plants for people, sometimes in gratitude for the financial support of their patrons.[3]

See also: List of plant genera named for people (A–C), List of plant genera named for people (K–P), and List of plant genera named for people (Q–Z)
Bust of Herodotus (Metropolitan Museum of Art). See Herodotia.

Early works researching the naming of plant genera include an 1810 glossary by Alexandre de Théis [fr] and an etymological dictionary in two editions (1853 and 1856) by Georg Christian Wittstein.[3] Modern works include The Gardener's Botanical by Ross Bayton, Index of Eponymic Plant Names and Encyclopedia of Eponymic Plant Names by Lotte Burkhardt, Plants of the World by Maarten J. M. Christenhusz (lead author), Michael F. Fay and Mark W. Chase, The A to Z of Plant Names by Allan J. Coombes, the four-volume CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names by Umberto Quattrocchi, and Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners by William T. Stearn; these supply the seed-bearing genera listed in the first column below. Excluded from this list are genus names not accepted (as of January 2021) at Plants of the World Online, which includes updates to Plants of the World (2017).

Key

Ba = listed in Bayton's The Gardener's Botanical[4]
Bt = listed in Burkhardt's Encyclopedia of Eponymic Plant Names[5]
Bu = listed in Burkhardt's Index of Eponymic Plant Names[6]
Ch = listed in Christenhusz's Plants of the World[7]
Co = listed in Coombes's The A to Z of Plant Names[8]
Qu = listed in Quattrocchi's CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names[9]
St = listed in Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners[10]

In addition, Burkhardt's Index is used as a reference for every row in the table, except as noted.

Genera

Dahlstedtia
Christian Ramsay, Countess of Dalhousie
Dalibarda
Dampiera
Daubenya
Davidsonia fruits
Deckenia
Declieuxia
Dedeckera
Deeringothamnus
Árpád von Degen
Delairea
Delarbrea illustration
Denekia
Deppea
Ferdinand Cohn
Dickasonia
Alfred Grandidier
Dielsia
Dinizia
Dioclea
Dirichletia
Doellingeria
Drakaea
Echeandia
Edmondia
Elekmania
Ellisia
Enceliopsis
Endlicheria
Engelmannia
Englerophytum
Eschweilera
Escobaria
Etlingera
Ewartia
Fagraea
Falconeria
Fargesia
Fatoua
Faujasia
Favratia
Feijoa
Fendlerella
Fernandezia
Fernandoa
Fessia
Fitzwillia
Fleischmannia
Floerkea
Fockea
Forgesia
Forsskaolea
Fosterella
Freylinia
Fridericia
Frithia
Fuertesimalva
Funkiella
Gaertnera
Galeottia
Galvezia
Garberia
Gaussia
Graderia
Grangea
Asa Gray
Grayia
Gronovia
Guatteria
Guettarda
Guichenotia
Gundelia
Haageocereus
Hackelia
Hagenia
Hagsatera
Halenia
Halfordia
Halgania
Halleria
Hanabusaya
Hancornia
Handroanthus
Harperocallis
Haumaniastrum
Hellenia
Helmholtzia
Henckelia
Herbertia
Herissantia
Hernandia
Herrania
Hertia
Hicksbeachia
Hilaria
Hillebrandia
Hillia
Hofmeisterella
Hohenbergia
Holmgrenanthe
Holmskioldia
Hoodia
Horsfieldia
Hortia
Howittia
Portrait of Alexander von Humboldt by Friedrich Georg Weitsch
Huntleya
Incarvillea
Isabelia
Isertia
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See also

Notes

  1. Clicking on anything other than D to J will navigate away from this page.
  2. Page numbers for references are omitted, since all the references list genera alphabetically except for Plants of the World, which is mainly cited for genera that match their family names.
  3. Except for the people with an indication in their name or description that they were known for something else, all are remembered for their work as naturalists, including amateur and professional botanists, mycologists, zoologists, apothecaries, geologists, geographers and meteorologists.
  4. Present-day geographical names are used wherever possible.

Citations

  1. [1]
    Cullen, p. 38.
  2. [2]
    Burkhardt 2018, p. 9.
  3. [3]
    Burkhardt 2018, p. 12.
  4. [4]
    Bayton.
  5. [5]
    Burkhardt 2022.
  6. [6]
    Burkhardt 2018.
  7. [7]
    Christenhusz.
  8. [8]
    Coombes.
  9. [9]
    Quattrocchi.
  10. [10]
    Stearn.
  11. [11]
    POWO.

References

  • Bayton, Ross (2020). The Gardener's Botanical: An Encyclopedia of Latin Plant Names. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-20017-0.
  • Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved January 1, 2021. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ for license.
  • Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved January 27, 2022. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ for license.
  • Christenhusz, Maarten; Fay, Michael Francis; Chase, Mark Wayne (2017). Plants of the World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Vascular Plants. Chicago, Illinois: Kew Publishing and The University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-52292-0.
  • Coombes, Allen (2012). The A to Z of Plant Names: A Quick Reference Guide to 4000 Garden Plants. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press. ISBN 978-1-60469-196-2.
  • Cullen, Katherine E. (2006). Biology: The People Behind the Science. New York, New York: Infobase Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8160-7221-7.
  • POWO (2019). "Plants of the World Online". London: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Archived from the original on March 22, 2017. Retrieved January 1, 2021. See http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/terms-and-conditions Archived 2021-04-23 at the Wayback Machine for license.
  • Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, Volume II, D–L. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-2676-9.
  • Stearn, William (2002). Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners. London: Cassell. ISBN 978-0-304-36469-5.

Further reading

  • Gledhill, David (2008). The Names of Plants. New York, New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3.
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