Pierre Edmond Boissier (25 May 1810 Geneva – 25 September 1885 Valeyres-sous-Rances) was a Swiss prominent botanist, explorer and mathematician[citation...
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Euphorbia leuconeura (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
Euphorbia leuconeura is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae. Its common name is Madagascar jewel. It is endemic to Madagascar where...
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(born 1953) Pierre Augustin Boissier de Sauvages (1710–1795), French naturalist and encyclopedist Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810–1885), Swiss botanist,...
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Euphorbia ingens (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
Euphorbia ingens is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae. It is native to dry areas of southern Africa. It is popularly known as the...
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Euphorbia royleana (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
Euphorbia royleana is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae. It is also known as Sullu spurge, and Royle's spurge. It is a succulent...
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Texas wild olive. It is named after the Swiss explorer and botanist Pierre Edmond Boissier. Cordia boissieri reaches a height of 5–7 m (16–23 ft), with a symmetrical...
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Zataria (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
Zataria is a genus of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1876. It contains only one known species, Zataria multiflora, native...
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Scilla luciliae (redirect from Boissier's glory-of-the-snow)
epithet is in honour of Lucile, the wife of the Swiss botanist Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810-1885). It belongs to a group of Scilla species that were formerly...
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Lavandula lanata (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
Lavandula lanata, the woolly lavender, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, native to southern Spain. An evergreen dwarf shrub growing...
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Origanum laevigatum (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
Origanum laevigatum is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, native to Cyprus, Syria, and Turkey. Growing to 50–60 cm (20–24 in) tall by...
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