{{Short description|English botanist (1641–1706)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} thumb|Leonard Plukenet {{circa}}1691 thumb|{{center|Plate from ''Phytographia''}} '''Leonard Plukenet''' (1641–1706) was an English botanist, Royal Professor of Botany and gardener to Queen Mary.
==Biography== Plukenet published ''Phytographia'' (London, 1691–1696) in four parts in which he described and illustrated rare exotic plants.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Gunn|first=Mary|title=Botanical exploration of southern Africa : an illustrated history of early botanical literature on the Cape flora : biographical accounts of the leading plant collectors and their activities in southern Africa from the days of the East India Company until modern times|date=1981|publisher=Published for the Botanical Research Institute by A.A. Balkema|others=L. E. W. Codd|isbn=0-86961-129-1|location=Cape Town|pages=35|oclc=8591273}}</ref> It is a copiously illustrated work of more than 2 700 figures and is frequently cited in books and papers from the 17th century to the present. He collaborated with John Ray in the second volume of ''Historia Plantarum'' (London, 1686–1704). {{botanist|Pluk.|Plukenet, Leonard|border=0|inline=1}}
Paul Dietrich Giseke (1741–1796) compared Plukenet's species with those of Linnaeus in ''Index Linnaeanus'' (Hamburg, 1779).
'''''Pluk. mant.''''', refers to the third volume (London, 1700) of the first edition of ''Historia Plantarum'', the whole of which was published 1691–1705.
==Works== * {{Cite book|title=Phytographia|volume=1|publisher=|location=London|year=1691|language=la|url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=8838330}} ** {{Cite book|title=Phytographia|volume=2|publisher=|location=London|year=1691|language=la|url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=8838813}} * {{Cite book|title=Almagestum botanicum|volume=|publisher=|location=London|year=1696|language=la|url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=8839170}} * {{Cite book|title=Amaltheum botanicum|volume=|publisher=|location=London|year=1705|language=la|url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=8841039}}
== Bibliography == * '''Phytographia''', sive Stirpium Illustriorum & minus cognitarum Icones Tabulis Æenis, Summa diligentiâ elaboratœ, pars prior (1690)<ref name=":0">Stafleu, Frans A. & Cowan, Richard S., [https://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/tl-2/browse.cfm?vol=4#page/312 Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types, 2nd edn, vol. 4, pp. 300-301 (1983)]</ref> * '''Phytographia''', sive Stirpium Illustriorum & minus cognitarum Icones Tabulis Æenis, Summa diligentiâ elaboratœ, pars altera (1691)<ref name=":0" /> * '''Phytographia''', sive Stirpium Illustriorum & minus cognitarum Icones Tabulis Æenis, Summa diligentiâ elaboratœ, pars tertia (1692)<ref name=":0" /> * '''Phytographia''', sive Stirpium Illustriorum & minus cognitarum Icones Tabulis Æenis, Summa diligentiâ elaboratœ, pars quarta (1696)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Phytographia [...] Pars quarta|url=https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/records/item/14265-phytographia-pars-quarta|access-date=2021-03-03|website=bibdigital.rjb.csic.es|language=es}}</ref> * '''Almagestum Botanicum''' sive Phytographiæ Plukenetianæ Onomasticon Methodo Syntheticâ digestum (1696)<ref name=":0" /> * '''Almagesti botanici mantissa.''' Plantarum novissime detectarum ultra millenarium numerum complectens (1700)<ref name=":0" /> * '''Amaltheum botanicum.''' stirpium indicarum alterum copiae cornu millenas ad minimum & bis centum diversas species novas & indictas nominatim comprehendens (1705)<ref name=":0" />
== See also == *List of florilegia and botanical codices
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== Further reading == * ''Phytographia'', sive stirpium illustriorum et minus cognitarum icones, tabulis aeneis summa diligentia elaboratae, quarum unaquaque titulis descriptoriis ex notis suis propriis et characteristicis desumtis insignita, ab aliis ejusdem sortis facile discriminantur, by Leonard Plukenet, London: 1691–1696. * ''Codex Bentingiana'', the catalog of the garden of Hans Willem Bentinck was a source for the Phytographia
== External links == *[https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/viewer/13649/?offset=#page=294&viewer=picture&o=download&n=0&q= download ''Amaltheum Botanicum''] {{commons category}} {{wikispecies}}
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