Platon Sergeevich Panjutin (russian: Платон Сергеевич Панютин, 1889 – 1946) was a Russian chemist, botanist, naturalist, and mountain climber. He collected botanical specimens in the southern part of the Caucasus Mountains in

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. In 1913 the botanist G. Sakharov collected a snowdrop (genus ''Galanthus'') near Gagra at 1600 meters. After studying the botanical specimen, Panjutin named its species ''Galanthus valentinae''. However, Panjutin did not validly publish the name according to the rules of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. For about a century, botanists regarded ''G. valentinae'' as a synonym for ''G. krasnovii''. In 2008 Dmitri Zubov and Olga Bondareva collected in western Transcaucasia a snowdrop specimen. According to Zubov and Aaron P. Davis (from Kew) the 2008 specimen belonged to the same species as Sakharov's 1913 specimen and, furthermore, the two specimens belonged to a species different from the 19 known species in the genus ''Galanthus''. Zubov and Davis named the new species ''

Galanthus panjutinii ''Galanthus'' (from Ancient Greek , (, "milk") + (, "flower")), or snowdrop, is a small genus of approximately 20 species of bulbous perennial herbaceous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae. The plants have two linear leaves and a single sm ...

'' in honor of Panjutin.

Eponyms

* ''Galanthus panjutinii''

Selected publications

* * * Panjutin, P. S. "Tall herbaceous vegetation of the West Caucasus." Izvestia Russk Geogr Obschestva 71, no. 9 (1939): 27–45. * Panjutin, P. S. "Mires of Colchide." Botanicheskii Zhurnal of USSR 27, no. 5 (1942): 94–107.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Panjutin, Platon Sergeevich 1889 births 1946 deaths Soviet botanists Soviet chemists Soviet mountain climbers