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Emmanuel Drake del Castillo (1855 – 1904) was a French botanist. He was born at Paris and studied with Louis Édouard Bureau (1830–1918) at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (National Museum of Natural History). Between 1886 and 1892, he published ''Illustrationes Florae Insulae Maris Pacifici'' ("Illustrations of the flora of the islands of the Pacific Ocean") a summarization of his work on the flora of French Polynesia. He also studied the flora of Madagascar. In addition, he put together a herbarium which contained more than 500,000 samples. He died in 1904 at Saint-Cyran-du-Jambot, bequeathing his herbarium to the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. == Taxa == He was the taxonomic authority of numerous plants. The following is a list of botanical genera that he described: * ''Alluandia'', family Didiereaceae. * ''Alluaudia'', family Didiereaceae * ''Apaloxylon'', family Leguminosae * ''Bathiaea'', family Leguminosae * ''Cullumiopsis'', family Asteraceae * ''Gigasiphon'', family Leguminosae * ''Leptomischus'', family Rubiaceae * ''Poortmannia'', family Solanaceae.〔(IPNI ) List of plants described or co-described by Drake del Castillo.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Emmanuel Drake del Castillo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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