swedish botanist carolus linnaeus

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Cycas circinalis
... since its inception, this was described as the single constituent species when the great Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus established the genus Cycas in 1753. He had, however, based his description on a ... understanding of the systematics of the group since the time of Linnaeus' work. The other species covered by Linnaeus' description are now known as C. revoluta, separated by Thunberg in ...
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Tree of life proposal divides scientists (9/20/1999)
... and ranking every living thing on Earth, a system invented 250 years ago by the Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus and a staple of textbooks to this day. It was a good system for its ... word for evolutionary relationships, and it's the heart and soul of biological classification. When Linnaeus began his ambitious work of classifying everything in the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms in ...
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Gardening Suggestions - Common Names
... €śRobin”? Just as birds are categorized for convenient discussion, so are plants. The 18th century Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus, laid out the rules for botanical nomenclature, which are still used for plant ID in ...
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Hunt Institute: Online Exhibitions
... Linnaeus Disposes "God creates, Linnaeus disposes" Carolus Linnaeus (also Carl von Linné, 1707–1778) was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist whose work laid the foundations of modern biological systematics and nomenclature. Long before Linnaeus ... Drawing on the work of his predecessors and contemporaries, Linnaeus developed a coherent system for describing, classifying and naming ...
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justgardeners.com
... distantly to good old amaranth! The genus was named Dianthus ("divine flower") by Carolus Linnaeus, the great 18th century Swedish botanist, who knew a good thing when he saw it. North America has no ...
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Floridata: Torenia fournieri
... by none other than the father of modern taxonomy, Carolus Linnaeus, for a contemporary Swedish clergyman, Olaf Toren. The specific epithet honors the French botanist Pierre Fournier. Steve Christman 4/22/05 Copyright 1996 ...
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CSSA Newsletters #19
... Jaarsveld 8. The first written record concerning Haworthia appears to be that of: a. Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1777) c. Heinrich Oldenland (1663-1697) b. Jan Commelin (1629-1692) d. ... German botanist and professor of botany at Oxford, England; drew and etched drawings in his own publication: "Hortu Elthamensis" in 2 volumes in 1732. Carolus Linnaeus was a Swedish nature researcher, physician & botanist ...
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What does a name mean ?
... a system which was originally developed around 1753 by a Swedish botanist called Carl von Linné. (His name is more commonly seen as Carolus Linnaeus, which is the latinised form of his name.) The ...
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Botanic Garden Tulips
... of bulbous plants is Tulipa and was assigned by the famous Swedish botanist Linnaeus in the mid 1700's. The name tulip is derived ... The rest of the seeds and bulbs were presented to a botanist named Carolus Clusius who was employed by the Imperial court. Clusius ... 1600's, the popularity of tulips steadily increased. The arrival of Carolus Clusius at Leiden University was one factor that helped to ...
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