Genus Plukenetia

For Leonard Plukenet (1641–1706), British physician, royal professor of botany and gardener to Queen Mary II of England and superintendent of the Hampton Court garden. He published Phytographia (London, 1691–1692) in four parts in which he described and illustrated rare exotic plants. It is a copiously illustrated work of more than 2 700 figures and is frequently cited in books and papers from the 17th century to the present. He collaborated with John Ray in the second volume of Historia Plantarum (London, 1686–1704). He was also the first author to mention a Cape species of Erica in his book Almagesti Mantisssa Botanici, published in 1700.