Emmanuel Drake del Castillo (28 December 1855 – 14 May 1904) was a French
botanist.
He was born at
Paris
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(1830–1918) at the
Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
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(National Museum of Natural History). Between 1886 and 1892, he published ''Illustrationes Florae Insulae Maris Pacifici'' ("Illustrations of the flora of the islands of the Pacific Ocean") a summarization of his work on the flora of
French Polynesia. He also studied the flora of
Madagascar
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.
In addition, he put together a
herbarium which contained more than 500,000 samples. He died in 1904 at
Saint-Cyran-du-Jambot, bequeathing his herbarium to the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle.
Taxa
He was the
taxonomic authority
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of numerous plants. The following is a list of botanical genera that he described:
* ''
Alluaudia
''Alluaudia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Didiereaceae. There are six species, all endemic to Madagascar.
Most occur in the southwestern subarid forest-thicket vegetation of the island.
Species of ''Alluaudia'' are dioecious, ...
'', family Didiereaceae
* ''
Apaloxylon'', family
Leguminosae
* ''
Bathiaea'', family Leguminosae
* ''Cullumiopsis'', family
Asteraceae
The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae w ...
(now classed a synonym of ''
Macledium
''Macledium'' is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family. Both ''Macledium'' and ''Dicoma
''Dicoma'' is a genus of flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), comm ...
'' )
* ''
Gigasiphon'', family Leguminosae
* ''
Leptomischus'', family
Rubiaceae
The Rubiaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the coffee, madder, or bedstraw family. It consists of terrestrial trees, shrubs, lianas, or herbs that are recognizable by simple, opposite leaves with interpetiolar stipules a ...
* ''
Poortmannia'', family
Solanaceae.
Partial bibliography
* ''Illustrationes florae insularum Maris Pacifici'' / Paris: G. Masson, 1886–1892.
* ''Histoire naturelle des plantes (de Madagascar)'' T. 1, 3–6, / Emmanuel Drake del Castillo,
Henri Baillon / Paris : impr. nationale, 1886-1902 - Natural history of plants (Madagascar).
* ''Remarques sur la flore de la Polynésie et sur ses rapports avec celle des terres voisines'' / Paris: G. Masson, 1890 - Notes on the flora of
Polynesia
Polynesia () "many" and νῆσος () "island"), to, Polinisia; mi, Porinihia; haw, Polenekia; fj, Polinisia; sm, Polenisia; rar, Porinetia; ty, Pōrīnetia; tvl, Polenisia; tkl, Polenihia (, ) is a subregion of Oceania, made up of ...
and its relationship with other lands.
* ''Flore de la Polynésie française : description des plantes vasculaires qui croissent spontanément ou qui sont généralement cultivées aux Iles de la Société, Marquise, Pomotou, Gambier et Wallis'' / Paris: Masson, 1892 - Flora of
French Polynesia; description of
vascular plants
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that are native or are generally grown in the
Society Islands
The Society Islands (french: Îles de la Société, officially ''Archipel de la Société;'' ty, Tōtaiete mā) are an archipelago located in the South Pacific Ocean. Politically, they are part of French Polynesia, an overseas country of the ...
,
Marquesas Islands
The Marquesas Islands (; french: Îles Marquises or ' or '; Marquesan: ' ( North Marquesan) and ' ( South Marquesan), both meaning "the land of men") are a group of volcanic islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in ...
,
Gambier Islands
The Gambier Islands ( or ) are an archipelago in French Polynesia, located at the southeast terminus of the Tuamotu archipelago. They cover an area of , and are made up of the Mangareva Islands, a group of high islands remnants of a caldera a ...
and
Wallis Islands
Wallis and Futuna, officially the Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands (; french: Wallis-et-Futuna or ', Fakauvea and Fakafutuna: '), is a French island collectivity in the South Pacific, situated between Tuvalu to the northwest, Fij ...
.
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19th-century French botanists
Botanists active in Africa
Botanists active in the Pacific
1855 births
Scientists from Paris
1904 deaths