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George Bentham CMG FRS FLS (22 September 1800 – 10 September 1884) was an English botanist, described by the weed botanist Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".
George Bentham (22 settembre 1800 – 10 settembre 1884) è stato un botanico inglese. [1] Fu chiamato da Duane Isely "Il primo botanico sistematico del diciannovesimo secolo".
17 apr 2024 · George Bentham was a British botanist whose classification of seed plants (Spermatophyta), based on an exhaustive study of all known species, served as a foundation for modern systems of vascular plant taxonomy. Impressed by the French naturalist Pyrame de Candolle’s analytic tables of French.
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Linea Definizione. Arte. Cataloghi. Botanico (Stoke 1800 - Londra 1884), nipote di Jeremy. Studiò la flora della Francia meridionale e dei Pirenei e, tornato in Inghilterra, ordinò varie collezioni di piante esotiche. Nel 1854 donò allo stato il suo ricco erbario.
George Bentham (1800–1884) and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911) were British botanists who were closely affiliated to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in England. Their system of botanical taxonomy was based on the principle of natural affinities and is considered as pre-Darwinian as it does not take evolution into account.
George Bentham. 1800-1884. English botanist who was one of the most prolific botanists of his time. Among his many written contributions was Genera Plantarum, in which he and Joseph Dalton Hooker described and classified the flowering plants and gymnosperms.
Nel 1861 fu presidente della Linnean Society. Era un profondo conoscitore della botanica sistematica, e lasciò parecchi importanti lavori. Le opere principali sono le monografie delle Labiate (1832), delle Polemoniacee (1845), delle Scrofulariacee (1864).
