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Blanco, Francisco Manuel, 1778-1845

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Francisco Manuel Blanco (born 1778 in Navianos; died 1845 in Manila) was a Spanish friar and botanist.

Biography

He was a member of the Augustinian order. 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 a directory of the plants of the Philippines, Flora de Filipinas según el sistema de Linneo (Flora of the Philippines according to the system of Linnaeus) (Manila, 1837, republished in 1845). Celestine Fernandez Villar (1838-1907) revised this work from 1877 to 1883.

The botanist Carl Ludwig Blume (1789-1862) named the genus Blancoa of the family Palmae in Blanco's honor.

Books

  • Flora de Filipinas Blanco, 1937.
  • Flora de Filipinas, según el sistema sexual de Linneo... (ed. 2), 1845.
  • Flora de Filipinas por el P. Fr. Manuel Blanco augustino calzado..(ed. 3), 1883

Abbreviation

The standard author abbreviation Blanco is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.
The standard botanical author abbreviation Blanco is applied to plants described by this botanist, which abbreviation also appears on this list.

References


This biographical information was gathered from the Francisco_Manuel_Blanco page, courtesy of the Wikipedia project.

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