Manuel Blanco Ramos

Manuel María Blanco Ramos^[1] known as Manuel Blanco (1779 – 1845) was a Spanish friar and botanist.

Illustrated edition of *Flora de Filipinas*, 1877–1883

Biography

Born in Navianos de Alba, Castilla y León, Spain, Blanco was a member of the Augustinian order of friars. His first assignment was in Angat in the province of Bulacan in the Philippines. He subsequently had a variety different assignments.

Towards the end of his life, he became the delegate of his order in Manila, traveling throughout the archipelago. He is the author of one of the first comprehensive flora of the Philippines, Flora de Filipinas. Según el sistema de Linneo (Flora of the Philippines according to the system of Linnaeus) which followed after the work done by Georg Joseph Kamel. The first two editions (Manila, 1837 and 1845) were unillustrated. Celestine Fernandez Villar (1838-1907), together with others including Antonio Llanos, published an illustrated posthumous edition from 1877 to 1883, printed by C. Verdaguer of Barcelona.^[2]

Blanco died in Manila in 1845. The botanist Carl Ludwig Blume (1789-1862) named the genus Blancoa of the family Palmae in his honor.

The standard author abbreviation Blanco is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[3]

Books

Flora de Filipinas. Según el sistema sexual de Linneo, Manila: 1837.
Flora de Filipinas. Según el sistema sexual de Linneo... Segunda impression &c., Manila: 1845.
Flora de Filipinas, según el sistema sexual de Linneo. Adicionada con el manuscrito inédito del. fr. Ignacio Mercado, las obras del fr. Antonio Llanos, y de un apéndice con todas las nuevas investigaciones botanicas referentes al archipiélago Filifino [sic]. Gran edicion., Manila: 1877-1883

References

Bibliography

Biography at Royal Academy of the History of Spain
Biography at Nationaal Herbarium Nederland
Plates from Flora de Filipinas at Wikimedia Commons. [1]
Blanco, Francisco Manuel (1877). "Biografía del R. P. Fr. Manuel Blanco". Flora de Filipinas; Gran edición; Tomo Primero (3 ed.). Manila (Filipinas). pp. XIII–XXIX.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Robinson, C. B. (1906). "The History of Botany in the Philippine Islands". Journal of the New York Botanical Garden. 7 (76): 104–112.

External links

Works by Manuel Blanco at Project Gutenberg

[1] Biography of Manuel María Blanco Ramos by the Royal Academy of the History of Spain

[2] Invaluable

[3] International Plant Names Index. Blanco.

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