Benjamin Peter Gloxin (1765–1794) was a German physician and botanical writer who lived in Colmar. He is commemorated by the Brazilian genus Gloxinia and Sinningia speciosa, which is commonly called Gloxinia in the horticulture trade. In 1791, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.[1]
Works
editObservationes Botanicae 1785, Argentorati, Strasbourg.
He was honoured in 2005, when botanists (H.E.Moore) Roalson & Boggan named a monotypic genus of a flowering plant from Columba after Gloxin.[2] Gloxinella and its one species, Gloxinella lindeniana.[3]
References
edit- ^ "Benjamin Gloxin". American Philosophical Society Member History. American Philosophical Society. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ "Gloxinella (H.E.Moore) Roalson & Boggan | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Gloxin.
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