José Arechavaleta y Balpardo
José Arechavaleta y Balpardo (born September 27, 1838 in Urioste near Bilbao , Spain , † June 16, 1912 in Montevideo ) was a Spanish-Uruguayan botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Arechav. "; earlier the abbreviation “ Arech. " in use.
Live and act
Arechavaleta settled in Montevideo in 1856. From April 26, 1892, he succeeded Carlos Berg as general director of the Museo de Historia Natural .
Honor
The genus Arechavaletaia Speggazz. has been named after him. Currently, however, the genre has been dissolved; its representatives were sorted into the genus Azara Ruiz & Pav . This genus was formerly in the family Flacourtiaceae , today in the family of the willow family (Salicaceae).
Works
- Las Gramíneas uruguayas . 1898.
- Flora uruguaya . 1898.
swell
- Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names. Edited by Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
- ↑ Entry on the Flacourtiaceae family at www.kew.org ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; see also the article on the genus Azara in the English Wikipedia.
Web links
- Author entry and list of the plant names described for José Arechavaleta y Balpardo at the IPNI
- Short biography (Spanish), accessed December 27, 2011
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SURNAME | Arechavaleta y Balpardo, José |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Arechavaleta, José |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish botanist |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1838 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Urioste near Bilbao , Spain |
DATE OF DEATH | June 16, 1912 |
Place of death | Montevideo |