''Systema Vegetabilium'' (abbreviated as Syst. Veg.) is a book published in four editions, following twelve earlier editions known as '' Systema Naturae''. The first edition, published in 1774 and edited by

Johan Andreas Murray Johan Andreas (Anders) Murray (27 January 1740 – 22 May 1791) was a Swedish physician of German descent and botanist, who published a major work on plant-derived medicines. Biography Johan Anders Murray was born in Stockholm on 27 January 1740, ...

is counted as edition 13 because it continues from the 12th edition of ''Systema Naturae''. All the names in it are attributed to

Carl Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his Nobility#Ennoblement, ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalise ...

. The second edition, (counted as the 14th of ''Systema Naturae'') published in 1784, includes plant species described by J.A. Murray and Carl Peter Thunberg. The third edition (counted as the 15th), was edited by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon Although the fourth edition, purportedly the 16th edition of Linnaeus's work was published in five volumes between 1824 and 1828, and attributed to

Kurt Sprengel Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (3 August 1766 – 15 March 1833) was a German botanist and physician who published an influential multivolume history of medicine, ''Versuch einer pragmatischen Geschichte der Arzneikunde'' (1792–99 in four vol ...

, the

International Plant Names Index The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) describes itself as "a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of seed plants, ferns and lycophytes." Coverage of plant names is best at the rank of species and genus. It inclu ...

suggests that it should be counted as edition 17. The 16th edition (abbreviated as Syst. Veg., ed. 15 bis oemer & Schultes was written jointly by

Johann Jacob Roemer Johann Jacob Roemer (8 January 1763, Zurich – 15 January 1819) was a physician and professor of botany in Zurich, Switzerland. He was also an entomologist. With Austrian botanist Joseph August Schultes, he published the 16th edition of Ca ...

Josef August Schultes Josef (Joseph) August Schultes (15 April 1773 in Vienna – 21 April 1831 in Landshut) was an Austrian botanist and professor from Vienna. Together with Johann Jacob Roemer (1763–1819), he published the 16th edition of Linnaeus' ''System ...

and

Julius Hermann Schultes Julius Hermann Schultes (4 February 1804 in Vienna – 1 September 1840 in Munich) was an Austrian botanist from Vienna. He co-authored volume 7 of the Roemer & Schultes edition of the ''Systema Vegetabilium'' with his father Josef August ...

. It was published in seven volumes between 1817-1830 under the name ''Systema Vegetabilium: Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera,

Species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

. Cum characteribus differentiis et synonymis. Nova Editio, speciebus inde ab Editione XV. Detectis aucta et locupletata''.

Volumes of the Roemer and Schultes edition

* Nº 1: Jan-Jun 1817; * Nº 2: Nov 1817; * Nº 3: Jul 1818; * Nº 4: Jan-Jun 1819; * Nº 5: finnish de 1819 ou early de 1820; by J. A. Schultes * Nº 6: Ago-Dez 1820; por J. A. Schultes * Nº 7(1): 1829; por J. A. & J. H. Schultes; * Nº 7(2): finnish de 1830

References

{{Carl Linnaeus Botany books 1774 books 18th-century Latin books