Pierre Rebut
Pierre Rebut (* 1827 ; † 1898 ) was a French cactus gardener. Its botanical author abbreviation is " Rebut ".
Live and act
Pierre Rebut was a winemaker who turned to growing and propagating cacti . His cactus nursery in Chazay-d'Azergues near Lyon was known beyond the country's borders.
In 1891 he received the first specimens of a new type of cactus from Frédéric Albert Constantin Weber in Paris, which Karl Moritz Schumann described in 1895 as Rebutia minuscula .
Dedication names
Karl Moritz Schumann named the genus Rebutia of the cactus family (Cactaceae) in his honor .
Furthermore, the epithets of
- × Gasteraloe rebutii (= Aloe variegata × Gasteria sp.) And
- Lobivia rebutioides ( synonym for Echinopsis densispina )
was named after him.
swell
- Walther Haage : cacti from A to Z . 3rd edition, Quelle & Meyer Verlag: Heidelberg, 1986. ISBN 3-494-01142-7
- Gordon Douglas Rowley : A History of Succulent Plants . Strawberry Press, 1997. ISBN 0-912647-16-0
- Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monthly for cactus science . Volume 5, p. 102, 1895
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Pierre Rebut at the IPNI
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rebut, Pierre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French cactus gardener |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1827 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1898 |