John Isaac Briquet (13 March 1870 in Geneva – 26 October 1931 in Geneva) was a Swiss botanist, director of the Conservatoire Botanique at Geneva. He received...
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for local floras, but the last monograph of the entire genus was by John Isaac Briquet in 1895. He recognized about 90 species, defining the genus broadly...
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theology and natural sciences in Geneva. In 1896 he was an assistant to John Isaac Briquet at the Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques at Geneva. In 1901 he made...
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Preissianae and was given the name Candollea exasperata. In 1900, John Isaac Briquet changed the name to Hibbertia exasperata. The specific epithet (exasperata)...
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had described the plant in his Flora Noribergensis (1700). In 1895, John Isaac Briquet defined the genus Clerodendrum broadly, to include all of those species...
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is also spelt frederici. The species was originally described by John Isaac Briquet in 1894, as Neomuellera welwitschii. It was transferred to the genus...
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variant spellings. In 1895, John Isaac Briquet included Rotheca in his rather broad circumscription of Clerodendrum. Briquet's treatment was generally followed...
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creation, Menthoides, along with Mentha pulegium and Mentha requienii. John Isaac Briquet however echoed Bentham and Opiz's classification of the species alone...
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weedy thickets, thriving at elevations under 3,000 feet. Described by John Isaac Briquet in 1896, it is not very well known in horticulture, with only a few...
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hairless leaflets and softly haired carpels, he named P. glabrescens. John Isaac Briquet distinguished a further glabrous taxon, P. corallina var. pubescens...
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