A Glance on Eponymous Women in Plant Sciences

Norah Al Aboud

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A Glance on Eponymous Women in Plant Sciences

Norah Al Aboud^*

Lecturer, Umm Alqura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia

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Copyright: © Norah Al Aboud 2023. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Article Information: Submission: 01/12/2022; Accepted: 26/12/2022; Published: 04/01/2023

Abstract

There are many eponyms in plant sciences. Some of these eponyms referred to a women. In this concise report, I am going to shed some lights on selected women after whom some of the plants were named.

Keywords

Eponyms; nomenclature; and plants

Table 1

Selected women after whom some of the plants were named, listed alphabetically [1-7].

Mary Agnes Chase (1869–1963): She was an American botanist who specialized in agrostology, the study of grasses.The genus, Agnesia is named after her.

Alicia Lourteig (1913–2003): She was an Argentine and French botanist, world specialist in Oxalidaceae.The genus, Alicia, is named after her.

Alice Eastwood (1859 –1953): She was a Canadian American botanist. She is credited with building the botanical collection at the California Academy of Sciences, in San Francisco.The genus, Aliciella, is named after her.

Alma Theodora Lee (1912- 1990): She was an Australian botanist and plant taxonomist .She is notable for raising the standard of systematic botany in Australia.The genus , Almaleea, is named after her.

Sarah Amherst (1762–1838): She was a British naturalist and botanist who lived in India.The genus, Amherstia, is named after her.

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 –1717): She was a German naturalist and scientific illustrator. She was one of the earliest European naturalists to observe insects directly. The genus, Meriania, is named for her.

Ynés Enriquetta Julietta Mexía (1870 –1938): She was a Mexican-American botanist notable for her extensive collection of novel specimens of flora and plants originating from sites in Colombia, Mexico, and Peru.The genus, Mexianthus, is named her.

References

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4. Mabberley, D. J. (1997). The Plant-Book: A Portable Dictionary of the Vascular Plants. Cambridge University Press p : 835.

5. Hooker, Sir William Jackson (1 July 1849). "Amherstia Nobilis". Curtis's Botanical Magazine. Reeve Brothers 75 : 158-162.

6. Todd, Kim (June 2011). "Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717): An Early Investigator of Parasitoids and Phenotypic Plasticity". Terrestrial Arthropod Reviews. 4 (2): 131–144.

7. Bonta, Marcia (1991). Women in the Field: America's Pioneering Women Naturalists. Texas A&M University Press pp : 299

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A Glance on Eponymous Women in Plant Sciences

Norah Al Aboud*

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