George Jackson

British botanist and author (1780-1811).

George Jackson (1780–1811) was an English botanist and author. He was born in Aberdeen in 1780 and was later in charge of A.B. Lambert's herbarium. On 2 February 1808 he was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society and made important contributions to the Henry Cranke Andrews publication The Botanist's Repository. He formally described the genus Ormosia, publishing the description in Transactions of the Linnean Society. Jackson died on 12 January 1811 aged 31. In the same year Robert Brown named a genus of leguminous plants Jacksonia in his honour. James Edward Smith, in Rees's Cyclopædia noted.

Abbreviations: Jacks.
Occupations: botanist, botanical collector
Citizenships: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Great Britain
Dates: 1780-00-00T00:00:00Z – 1811-01-01T00:00:00Z
Direct attributions: 4 plants, 0 fungi
Authorship mentions: 4 plants, 0 fungi

4 plants attributed to4 plants:

Ormosia (Ormosias) Jacks. 1811
plant genus in the fabaceae family
Ormosia is a genus of legumes (family Fabaceae), with 130 living species. They are mostly trees or large shrubs, and are native to the tropical Americas, from southwestern Mexico to Bolivia and southern Brazil, to southern, southeastern, and eastern Asia, and to New Guinea and Queensland. Most are tropical, while some extend into temperate regions of China. A few species are threatened by habitat destruction, while the Hainan ormosia (Ormosia howii) is probably extinct already. Plants in this genus are commonly known as horse-eye beans or simply ormosias, and in Spanish by the somewhat
Ormosia coccinea (Aubl.) Jacks. 1811
plant species in the fabaceae family
Ormosia coccinea is a plant that grows throughout the South Eastern North American countries, and all throughout South America. It produces beautiful red seeds with one black spot covering one-third of its surface. These seeds are used for jewelry and other decorative purposes. The seeds are known as wayruru (Aymara, also spelled huayruro, huayruru, wayruro) in Peru, where villagers believe them to be powerful good luck charms, and nene or chumico in Costa Rica. A French name is panacoco, but this more often applies to Swartzia tomentosa. Kharisiri, a fat-sucking Andean folkloric creature,
Zieria smithii (Sandfly Zieria) Jacks. 1810
plant species in the rutaceae family
Zieria smithii, commonly known as sandfly zieria, lanoline bush or Smithian zieria, is a plant in the citrus family Rutaceae and is endemic to eastern and south-eastern Australia. It is a robust shrub with its leaves composed of three leaflets, and groups of flowers with four white petals, the groups usually shorter than the leaves. It is common and widespread along the coast and adjacent ranges.
Ormosia coarctata (Barakaro) Jacks. 1811
plant species in the fabaceae family
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