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Ruelliopsis
''Ruelliopsis'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae. It only contains one known species, Ruelliopsis setosa (Nees) C.B.Clarke It is native to Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and the Cape Provinces, Free State and the Northern Provinces, regions of South Africa. The genus name of ''Ruelliopsis'' is in honour of Jean Ruel (1474–1537), a French herbalist and physician to Francis I of France and translator of several works of Pedanius Dioscorides, Dioscorides.. The Latin binomial nomenclature, specific epithet of ''setosa'' means bristly derived from ''setose''. Both the genus and the species were first described and published in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Trop. Afr. Vol.5 on page 59 in 1899. References {{Taxonbar, from1=Q10365192, from2=Q17681337 Acanthaceae Acanthaceae genera Plants described in 1899 Flora of Zimbabwe Flora of Southern Africa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Ruel
Jean Ruel (1474 – 24 September 1537), also known as Jean Ruelle or Ioannes Ruellius in its Latinised form, was a French physician and botanist noted for the 1536 publication in Paris of ''De Natura Stirpium'', a Renaissance treatise on botany. Ruel was born in Soissons. He was self-taught in Greek and Latin, and studied medicine, graduating in 1508, or, according to other sources in 1502. In 1509 he became physician to Francis I of France, Francis I, devoted himself at the same time to a study of botany and pharmacology. He was a professor at the University of Paris, and a large part of his academic career was given to an analysis of Dioscorides''De Materia Medica'' of which he published a Latin translation in 1516. Ruel's three-volume ''De Natura Stirpium'', which was published without illustrations, was intended partly as a gloss to the ancient writers. In it he described in great detail not only the habit and habitat, but also the smell and taste of each plant, producing a li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
