Genus Nicandra
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For Nikander of Colophon (Nikandros Kolophonios) (c 100–150), Greek botanist, physician, poet, grammarian and medical writer, who wrote about plants. He authored Alexipharmaca, a hexameter poem relating to the treatment of poisons and their antidotes, and Theriaca, a hexameter poem on the nature of venomous animals and the wounds they inflict. His medical knowledge is attributed to the physician Apollodorus (possibly of Alexandria). Most of his poems and prose work, such as the mythical epic Heteroeumena, have been lost or only fragments survive, such as Georgica, which was perhaps imitated by Virgil. The works of Nikander were praised by Cicero, imitated by Ovid, Lucan and perhaps Virgil and frequently quoted by Pliny the Elder and other writers.