Leonard Plukenet Explained

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

Biography

Plukenet published Phytographia (London, 1691–1696) in four parts in which he described and illustrated rare exotic plants.^[1] It is a copiously illustrated work of more than 2 700 figures and is frequently cited in books and papers from the 17th century to the present. He collaborated with John Ray in the second volume of Historia Plantarum (London, 1686–1704).

Paul Dietrich Giseke (1741–1796) compared Plukenet's species with those of Linnaeus in Index Linnaeanus (Hamburg, 1779).

Pluk. mant., refers to the third volume (London, 1700) of the first edition of Historia Plantarum, the whole of which was published 1691–1705.

Works

• Book: Phytographia. 1. London. 1691. la.
  • Book: Phytographia. 2. London. 1691. la.
• Book: Almagestum botanicum. London. 1696. la.
• Book: Amaltheum botanicum. London. 1705. la.

Bibliography

• Phytographia, sive Stirpium Illustriorum & minus cognitarum Icones Tabulis Æenis, Summa diligentiâ elaboratœ, pars prior (1690)^[2]
• Phytographia, sive Stirpium Illustriorum & minus cognitarum Icones Tabulis Æenis, Summa diligentiâ elaboratœ, pars altera (1691)
• Phytographia, sive Stirpium Illustriorum & minus cognitarum Icones Tabulis Æenis, Summa diligentiâ elaboratœ, pars tertia (1692)
• Phytographia, sive Stirpium Illustriorum & minus cognitarum Icones Tabulis Æenis, Summa diligentiâ elaboratœ, pars quarta (1696)^[3]
• Almagestum Botanicum sive Phytographiæ Plukenetianæ Onomasticon Methodo Syntheticâ digestum (1696)
• Almagesti botanici mantissa. Plantarum novissime detectarum ultra millenarium numerum complectens (1700)
• Amaltheum botanicum. stirpium indicarum alterum copiae cornu millenas ad minimum & bis centum diversas species novas & indictas nominatim comprehendens (1705)

See also

• List of florilegia and botanical codices

Further reading

• Phytographia, sive stirpium illustriorum et minus cognitarum icones, tabulis aeneis summa diligentia elaboratae, quarum unaquaque titulis descriptoriis ex notis suis propriis et characteristicis desumtis insignita, ab aliis ejusdem sortis facile discriminantur, by Leonard Plukenet, London: 1691–1696.
• Codex Bentingiana, the catalog of the garden of Hans Willem Bentinck was a source for the Phytographia

External links

• download Amaltheum Botanicum

Notes and References

1. Book: Gunn, Mary. Botanical exploration of southern Africa : an illustrated history of early botanical literature on the Cape flora : biographical accounts of the leading plant collectors and their activities in southern Africa from the days of the East India Company until modern times. 1981. Published for the Botanical Research Institute by A.A. Balkema. L. E. W. Codd. 0-86961-129-1. Cape Town. 35. 8591273.
2. Stafleu, Frans A. & Cowan, Richard S., Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types, 2nd edn, vol. 4, pp. 300-301 (1983)
3. Web site: Phytographia [...] Pars quarta]. 2021-03-03. bibdigital.rjb.csic.es. es.