David Don

David Don (born December 21, 1799 in Doo Hillock , Forfarshire , Scotland , † December 8, 1841 in London ) was a British botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " D.Don ".

Life

David Don was the younger brother of the botanist George Don ; both sons of George Don von Forfar . Don was the Linnean Society Librarian in London from 1822 to 1841 . From 1836 to 1841 he was Professor of Botany at King's College London . David Don described several important species of conifers that were discovered in the 19th century. The coastal sequoia , initially Taxodium sempervirens D.Don , today Sequoia sempervirens (D. Don) Endl. who have favourited Awn Fir , Abies bracteata (D. Don) A. Poit. (described as Pinus bracteata D.Don ) or Japanese cedar Cryptomeria japonica (Thunb.) D. Don , which he in the genus Cupressus spun off, are also included. He was also the first to describe the Tibetan orchid Pleione D. Don kept in gardens in 1825. As librarian and secretary of the botanist Aylmer Bourke Lambert , he compiled the Prodromus florae nepalensis for him. This floral work is based on the collections of Francis Hamilton and Nathaniel Wallich . He contributed plant descriptions to the later editions of Lambert's A description of the genus Pinus .

Honors

In 1823 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . After David Don, the genus Doniophyton became Wedd. named from the sunflower family (Asteraceae).

Works

• Prodromus florae nepalensis , 1825

swell

• Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

Web links

• Author entry and list of the described plant names for David Don at the IPNI