Lasianthus Capitulatus
''Lasianthus capitulatus'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is Endemism, endemic to southern India. References Lasianthus, capitulatus Vulnerable plants Flora of Karnataka Flora of Kerala Flora of Tamil Nadu Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Rubiaceae-stub ...
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Robert Wight
Robert Wight (6 July 1796 – 26 May 1872) was a Scottish surgeon in the East India Company, whose professional career was spent entirely in southern India, where his greatest achievements were in botany – as an economic botanist and leading taxonomist in south India. He contributed to the introduction of Gossypium barbadense, American cotton. As a taxonomist he described 110 new genera and 1267 new species of flowering plants. He employed Indian botanical artists to illustrate many plants collected by himself and Indian collectors he trained. Some of these illustrations were published by William Jackson Hooker, William Hooker in Britain, but from 1838 he published a series of illustrated works in Madras including the uncoloured, six-volume ''Icones Plantarum Indiae Orientalis'' (1838–53) and two hand-coloured, two-volume works, the ''Illustrations of Indian Botany'' (1838–50) and ''Spicilegium Neilgherrense'' (1845–51). By the time he retired from India in 1853 he had p ...
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