Placa homenaje a José Antonio Pavón (Casatejada, Cáceres)

José Antonio Pavón Jiménez or José Antonio Pavón (April 22, 1754 in Casatejada, Cáceres,

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– 1840 in

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the Largest cities of the Europ ...

) was a Spanish botanist known for researching the flora of

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and

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

. During the reign of Charles III of Spain, three major botanical expeditions were sent to the New World; Pavón and

Hipólito Ruiz López Hipólito Ruiz López (August 8, 1754 in Belorado, Burgos, Spain – 1816 in Madrid), or Hipólito Ruiz, was a Spanish botanist known for researching the floras of Peru and Chile during an expedition under Carlos III from 1777 to 1788. During th ...

were the botanists for the first of these expeditions, to Peru and Chile from 1777 to 1788. The standard author abbreviation Ruiz & Pav. is used to indicate Pavón and his colleague Ruiz as joint authors when citing a

botanical name A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the ''International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants'' (ICN) and, if it concerns a plant cultigen, the additional cultivar or Group epithets must conform to the ''Internat ...

. The genus '' Pavonia'' was named in his honor by his contemporary, Spanish botanist

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 ...

— plants with the specific epithet of ''pavonii'' also commemorate his name.Etymological Dictionary of Grasses
by Harold T. Clifford, Peter D. Bostock

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Short biography"Flora Peruviana et Chilensis" Vols. I-III available online at Botanicus.org websiteJosé Antonio Pavón. Polymath Virtual Library, Fundación Ignacio Larramendi
19th-century Spanish botanists Flora of Chile 1754 births 1840 deaths 18th-century Spanish botanists {{Spain-botanist-stub

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