Paul Reneaulme

Paul Reneaulme (* 1560 in Blois ; † 1624 ) was a French doctor and botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Reneaulme ".

Live and act

Renaulme collected plants in the Alps , Switzerland , Italy and the Paris area . His work Specimen historiae plantarum , published in Paris in 1611, contains 25 panels with illustrations of plants, for example the checkerboard flower Fritillaria meleagris .

Honor taxon

Charles Plumier named the genus Renalmia from the bromeliad family (Bromeliaceae) in his honor . Carl von Linné later changed the spelling to Renealmia and added it to the genus Tillandsia in 1762 .

Linnaeus's son finally used the name Renealmia for a genus of the ginger family (Zingiberaceae).

Fonts (selection)

• Ex curationibus observationes quibus videre ets morbus tuto cito & jucunde posse debellari: si praecipue Galenicis praeceptis chymica remedia veniant subsidio… . Hadrianus Beys, Paris 1606 ( online ).
• Specimen historiae plantarum. Plantae typis aeneis expressae . Hadrianus Beys, Paris 1611 ( online ); together with five poems by Jacques August de Thou

proof

literature

• Wilfrid Blunt : The Art of Botanical Illustration: An Illustrated History . Dover Publications, 1994, ISBN 0-486-27265-6 , p. 92.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Charles Plumier: Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera . Leiden 1703, p. 37.
2. ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 94.
3. ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 136.
4. ↑ Carl von Linné: Species Plantarum . 2nd edition, 1762.
5. ↑ Jason R. Grant: An annotated catalog of the generic names of the Bromeliaceae . In: Selbyana . Volume 19, Number 1, 1998, pp. 91–121 ( online )

Web links

• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Paul Reneaulme at the IPNI
• Works by Paul Reneaulme in the catalog of the Göttingen University Library
• Illustration from Specimen historiae plantarum
• Illustration of the tobacco plant in Specimen historiae plantarum (p. 4; PDF file; 598 kB)