''Nomenclator Botanicus Hortensis'' aka ''Nomencl. Bot. Hort.'' is an 1840-46 alphabetic index of cultivated plants from the gardens of Europe by the German botanist

Gustav Heynhold Gustav Heynhold (or ''Gustav Heinhold''; 1800–1860) was a German botanist who worked at the botanic gardens of Dresden and Frankfurt. In 1828 he was in Trieste where he carried out mapping and published "Uebersicht der Vegetation in den Umgebun ...

. It includes synonyms, botanical authors, countries of origin and cultivation. It was published in

Dresden Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...

and

Leipzig Leipzig (, ; ; Upper Saxon: ; ) is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Saxony. The city has a population of 628,718 inhabitants as of 2023. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, eighth-largest city in Ge ...

by the firm ''Arnoldischen Buchhandlung'' with an introduction by

Ludwig Reichenbach Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (8 January 1793 – 17 March 1879) was a German botanist, ornithologist and illustrator. It was he who first requested Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, Leopold Blaschka to make a set of glass marine invertebrate m ...

. 'Nomenclator' is one who bestows names or draws up a classified system of names, and by extension the term has become used for a book setting out such a system. The word '

nomenclature Nomenclature (, ) is a system of names or terms, or the rules for forming these terms in a particular field of arts or sciences. (The theoretical field studying nomenclature is sometimes referred to as ''onymology'' or ''taxonymy'' ). The principl ...

' is derived from ' nomenclator'. Well-known nomenclators have been the 1821 ''Nomenclator Botanicus'' of

Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel (30 May 1783 – 12 May 1856) was a German physician and an authority on grasses. Biography Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel was born at Esslingen am Neckar in Baden-Württemberg. He was educated at the University of Tübing ...

, the 1826 ''Hortus Britannicus'' of Robert Sweet and

John Claudius Loudon John Claudius Loudon (8 April 1782 – 14 December 1843) was a Scottish botanist, garden designer and author, born in Cambuslang in 1782. He was the first to use the term arboretum in writing to refer to a garden of plants, especially trees, co ...

's 1830 ''Hortus Britannicus''. ''Sweet's Hortus Britannicus'' is described as a 'Catalogue of Plants cultivated in the Gardens of Great Britain' and 'Arranged in Natural Orders with the addition of the Linnean Classes and Orders to which they belong, Reference to the Books where they are described, their Native Places of Growth, when introduced, Time of Flowering, Duration, and Reference to Figures with numerous synonyms'.

External links

''Nomenclator Botanicus Hortensis''
online

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