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Biographical entry Cavanilles, Antonio Jose (1745 - 1804)

Born
16 January 1745
Valencia, Spain
Died
4 May 1804
Madrid, Spain
Occupation
Botanist and Taxonomist

Summary

A leading taxonomic botanist in Spain, Antonio Cavanilles described a number of Australian plants, including the genera Angophora (closely related to Corymbia and Eucalyptus) in his six-volume work Icones et Descriptiones Plantarum (1791-1801).

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Events

1791
Taxonomy event - Described the genus Angophora Cav. (1791)
1791 - 1801
Career event - Illustration of his work Descriptiones Plantarum.
1797
Taxonomy event - Described the Eucalyptus salicifolia
1797
Taxonomy event - Described the Eucalyptus racemosa Cav. 1797
1797
Taxonomy event - Described the Eucalyptus corymbosa Cav. (1797) (= E. gummifera (Gaertn.) Hochr. (1925))
1798
Taxonomy event - Described the Eucalyptus platypodos Cav. (1798) (= E. Botryoides Sm. (1797))

Published resources

Books

  • Cavanilles, Antonio José, Icones et descriptiones plantarum [six volumes], J. Cramer, Lehre, 1965. Details
  • Hall, Norman, Botanists of the Eucalypts : short biographies of people who have named eucalypts, whose names have been given to species or who have collected type material, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Melbourne, 1978, 101 pp. Details
  • Wrigley, J.; & Fagg, M., Eucalypts: A Celebration, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest Australia, 2010, 344 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Salkin, A. I., 'Short History of the Discovery and Naming of Banksias in Eastern Australia: Part 4, The Abbe Antonia Jose Cavanilles, Robert Brown and Franz W. Sieber', Victorian Naturalist, vol. 98, no. 5, 1981, pp. 191-194. Details

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Created: 8 June 2012, Last modified: 26 February 2013