Premium
Aucher‐Eloy's plant specimens from the Immamat of Muscat
Author(s) -
Ghazanfar Shahina A.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.2307/1224245
Subject(s) - herbarium , foothills , flora (microbiology) , geography , taxon , archaeology , cartography , ecology , biology , bacteria , genetics
Summary Ghazanfar, S. A.: Aucher‐Eloy's plant specimens from the Immamat of Muscat. – Taxon 45: 609‐626. 1996. – ISSN 0040‐0262. Aucher‐Eloy was the first to make a comprehensive collection of plants from northern Oman (then called the Immamat of Muscat). He collected mainly in the northern mountains and foothills during March and April 1838. These as well as his other collections from the Orient served as one of the main sources of information for Boissier's Flora orientalis , still a standard reference work for the flora of south‐west Asia. Aucher‐Eloy's collection from Oman is listed here insofar as specimens have been located in the herbaria at Paris, Geneva, and Kew. Identifications of the 143 species thus listed are revised. Collecting locations and a complete itinerary are reconstructed with the help of Aucher‐Eloy's published journal and his unpublished field note‐book (at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris).