Elias Tillandz

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Elias Tillandz (also Elias Tillands, Elias Erici Til-Landz (Erici is not a first name; it means he was the son of Erik Tillander), Elias Til-Landz) (* 1640 ; † 1693 ) was a Finnish botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Tillandz ".

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Elias Tillandz was a professor of medicine at the Turku Academy in Finland . He founded the Botanical Garden there in 1678 and introduced the study of botany. In 1673 he published the first flora of Finland under the title Catalogus plantarum .

Honor taxon

Tillandsia

Carl von Linné named the plant genus Tillandsia ( Tillandsia ), which belongs to the Bromeliaceae family , after him .

Works

  • Catalogus plantarum . 1673

Individual evidence

  1. a b Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymic plant names - extended edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
  2. ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 94
  3. Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 135

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