James Bruce

Scottish explorer and botanist (1730–1794).

James Bruce of Kinnaird (14 December 1730 – 27 April 1794) was a Scottish traveller and travel writer who physically confirmed the source of the Blue Nile. He spent more than a dozen years in North and East Africa and in 1770 became the first European to trace and document the course of the Nile by following it upstream from Egypt through Sudan to its origins in the Blue Nile in Ethiopia.

Abbreviations: Bruce
Occupations: explorer, botanist, astronomer, archaeologist
Citizenships: Kingdom of Great Britain
Languages: English
Dates: 1730-12-14T00:00:00Z – 1794-04-27T00:00:00Z
Birth place: Stirling
Direct attributions: 1 plant, 0 fungi
Authorship mentions: 5 plants, 0 fungi

1 plant attributed, 4 plants contributed to5 plants:

Andropogon afer Bruce
plant species in the poaceae family
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Hagenia abyssinica (African Redwood) (Bruce) J.F.Gmel. 1791
plant species in the rosaceae family
Hagenia is a monotypic genus of flowering plant with the sole species Hagenia abyssinica, native to the high-elevation Afromontane regions of central and eastern Africa. It also has a disjunct distribution in the high mountains of East Africa from Sudan and Ethiopia in the north, through Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Tanzania, to Malawi and Zambia in the south. A member of the rose family, its closest relative is the Afromontane genus Leucosidea.
Ensete (False Bananas) Bruce ex Horan. 1862
plant genus in the musaceae family
Ensete is a genus of monocarpic flowering plants native to tropical regions of Africa and Asia. It is one of the three genera in the banana family, Musaceae, and includes the false banana or enset (E. ventricosum), an economically important food crop in Ethiopia.
Mimusops kummel Bruce ex A.DC. 1844
plant species in the sapotaceae family
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Canarium resiniferum Bruce ex King 1893
plant species in the burseraceae family
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