P005233 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

All key entry types: Awards; Concepts; Corporate Bodies (Organisations); Cultural Artefacts; People; etc

These key entries are listed separately below with other indexes and lists.

 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2012-07-23 human Christine Moje updated 2019-12-17 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005233b.htm person Candolle Augustus Pyramus de AACR2 4 February 1778 9 September 1841 Place of Birth Geneva, Switzerland Place of Death Geneva, Switzerland Botanist Augustus de Candolle was a Swiss botanist and Professor of Botany at Montpellier, France. He may also have held the Chair of Botany at Geneva, a position his son later held as well. Candolle wrote several important botanical works. Of interest to Australian botany is his Memoire sur la famille des Myrtacees, published posthumously in 1842. De Candolle named about 20 species of eucalypts and was the author of the genus Angophora. His name is commemorated in the genus Candollea, Stylidiaceae, which contains upwards of 100 Australian, New Zealand and eastern Asiatic species. 1827 1827 Taxonomy event - Described Eucalyptus obtusiflora DC. (1827) 1827 1827 Taxonomy event - Described Eucalyptus oblonga DC. (1827) 1828 1828 Taxonomy event - Described Eucalyptus punctata DC. (1828) 1828 1828 Taxonomy event - Described Eucalyptus micrantha DC. (1828) 1828 1828 Taxonomy event - Described Eucalyptus lindleyanaDC. (1828) 1828 1828 Taxonomy event - Described Eucalyptus ligustrina DC. (1828)

Wikidata

VIAF - Virtual International Authority File

 Candolle, Augustus Pyramus de (17780204-18410909)

Trove

 'Candolle, Augustus Pyramus de', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Candolle, Augustus Pyramus de Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: Mémoire sur la famille des myrtacées. De Candolle, Augustin Pyramus Mémoire sur la famille des myrtacées. Geneva Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève 1842 Book: 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 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 Melbourne CSIRO 1978

Source used to compile entry

 Eucalyptus punctata DC (1828), Grey Gum Eucalyptus punctata DC (1828), Grey Gum 23 January 2013 Gavan McCarthy, Christine Moje, Ailie Smith

Include in Gallery