John Lightfoot (botanist)
John Lightfoot (born December 9, 1735 in Newent , Gloucestershire in England , † February 18, 1788 in Uxbridge , Middlesex , England) was a British clergyman and biologist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Lightf. "
life and work
John Lightfoot was a clergyman, zoologist, and botanist . He lived in Bulstock , Buckinghamshire , and later in Uxbridge, Middlesex. He published a Flora Scotica: or, A systematic arrangement, in the Linnæan method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides in 1777 in two volumes, the second edition of which appeared in 1789.
Honors
His name as a botanist is in the genus Lightfootia L'Hér. from the family of bluebells ( Campanulaceae ) immortalized, which was later renamed Wahlenbergia .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
- ^ Transfer of the Southern African Species of Lightfootia, nom. illeg., to Wahlenbergia (Campanulaceae, Campanuloideae) Thomas G. Lammers Taxon Vol. 44, No. 3 (Aug 1995).
literature
- Frans Antonie Stafleu , Richard Sumner Cowan : Taxonomic literature . Volume III, Lh-O. Bohn, Scheltema & Holtema, Utrecht 1981. pp. 15-16.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lightfoot, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British clergyman and biologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 9, 1735 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Newent , Gloucestershire |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 18, 1788 |
| Place of death | Uxbridge , Middlesex |