Antonio José Cavanilles

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Antonio José Cavanilles
Statue of Cavanilles at the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid
Born	(1745-01-16)16 January 1745 Valencia, Spain
Died	5 May 1804(1804-05-05) (aged 59) Madrid, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Known for	Taxonomy of Iberian, South American and Oceanian flora
Scientific career
Fields	Botany
Academic advisors	Thouin, Jussieu
Influences	Carl Linnaeus
Influenced	Simón de Rojas
Author abbrev. (botany)	Cav.

Sterculia balanghas from the 1790 edition of Monadelphiæ classis dissertationes decem by Antonio José Cavanilles.

Antonio José Cavanilles (16 January 1745 – 5 May 1804) was a leading Spanish taxonomic botanist of the 18th century. He named many plants, particularly from Oceania. He named at least 100 genera, about 54 of which were still used in 2004, including Dahlia, Calycera, Cobaea, Galphimia, and Oleandra.^[1] The standard author abbreviation Cav. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[2]

Biography[]

Cavanilles was born in Valencia. He lived in Paris from 1777 to 1781, where he followed careers as a clergyman and a botanist, thanks to André Thouin and Antoine Laurent de Jussieu. He was one of the first Spanish scientists to use the classification method invented by Carl Linnaeus.

From Paris he moved to Madrid, where he was director of the Royal Botanical Garden and Professor of botany from 1801 to 1804.

In 1804, Cavanilles was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia.^[3]

He died in Madrid in 1804.

Selected publications[]

• Icones et descriptiones plantarum, quae aut sponte in Hispania crescunt, aut in hortis hospitantur..., Madrid, 1791-1801 [1]

See also[]

• List of plants of Caatinga vegetation of Brazil
• List of plants of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil
• List of Roman Catholic scientist-clerics

References[]

Further reading[]

• "Cavanilles, Antonio José (Joseph) (1745-1804". JSTOR Global Plants. ITHAKA. 2013.

External links[]

Wikisource has original works written by or about: Antonio José Cavanilles

• Biography by the Australian National Botanic Gardens
• Malpighiaceae/Cavanilles
• Monadelphiæ classis dissertationes decem on the Internet Archive
• Chronophobia Scans of 160 plates from Monadelphiæ classis dissertationes decem
• Antonio José Cavanilles. Polymath Virtual Library, Fundación Ignacio Larramendi

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