Adriaan van Royen

Dutch botanist and university teacher (1704-1779).

Adriaan van Royen (11 November 1704 in Leiden – 28 February 1779 in Leiden) was a Dutch botanist. He was a professor at Leiden University and is associated with Carl Linnaeus. He is best known for his work on flora of Southeast Asia. Adriaan van Royen formed a close relationship with Linnaeus, who had visited the Leiden Botanic Garden during a stay in Leiden between 1737 and 1738. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1728. He died in Leiden in 1779. The genus Royena L. (= Diospyros sect. Royena (L.) F.White), in the Ebenaceae, and Melastoma royenii Blume. Sutton, D.A. are named afte

Abbreviations: Royen
Occupations: university teacher, scientific collector, physician, botanist
Citizenships: Dutch Republic
Languages: Latin
Dates: 1704-11-11T00:00:00Z – 1779-02-28T00:00:00Z
Birth place: Leiden
Direct attributions: 1 plant, 0 fungi
Authorship mentions: 2 plants, 0 fungi

1 plant attributed, 1 plant contributed to2 plants:

Chionanthus (Fringetree) Royen 1753
plant genus in the oleaceae family
Chionanthus, common name: fringetrees, is a genus of about 140 species of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae. The genus has a wide distribution primarily in the tropics and subtropics, but with three species extending north into temperate regions, one (C. retusus) in eastern Asia and two (C. virginicus and C. henryae) in eastern North America. Most of the tropical species are evergreen, while the three temperate species are deciduous. Some botanists restrict Chionanthus to the deciduous, temperate species, treating the evergreen species in a separate genus Linociera, but apart from leaf
Dais (Pompom Tree) Royen ex L. 1762
plant genus in the thymelaeaceae family
Dais is a genus of flowering plants in the family Thymelaeaceae. It is also part of the Gnidia subfamily, along with Gnidia, Drapetes, Kelleria, Pimelea, Struthiola, Lachnaea and Passerina, other genera of species). It is distributed between Tanzania to S. Africa, Madagascar. It is native to the countries of Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and it is also found within several Provinces of South Africa, such as Cape Provinces, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal and Northern Provinces.
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