Philippe Sergeant

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Philippe Sergeant was a French Paulan monk , botanist and teacher of Charles Plumier at the Santa Trinità dei Monti monastery in Rome . He lived in the 17th century.

Dedication names

Charles Plumier named the genus Serjania of the soap tree family (Sapindaceae) in his honor . Carl von Linné put the genus under the name Seriana to Paullinia . Philip Miller later took up the generic name Serjania again.

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literature

  • Umberto Quattrocchi: CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology . CRC Press Inc., 2000, p. 2466.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles Plumier: Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera . Leiden 1703, p. 34.
  2. ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 170.
  3. ^ Philip Miller: The Gardeners Dictionary . London 1768, 8th edition (without page numbers).

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personal data
SURNAME Sergeant, Philippe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Paulan monk, botanist and teacher of Charles Plumier
DATE OF BIRTH 16th century or 17th century
DATE OF DEATH 17th century or 18th century