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    Henri François Pittier de Fabrega (August 13, 1857 in Bex, Switzerland – January 27, 1950 in Caracas, Venezuela) was a Swiss-born geographer and botanist...
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    species of flowering tree first described by Swiss-born botanist Henri François Pittier in 1917. It is native to Costa Rica, Panama, the Dominican Republic...
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    Garcinia madruno (category Taxa named by Henri François Pittier)
    Garcinia madruno, the charichuela, is a fruit-producing tree species from the rainforests of Central and South America. The leaves are dark green and leathery...
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    Garcinia intermedia (category Taxa named by Henri François Pittier)
    Binomial name Garcinia intermedia (Pittier) Hammel (1989) Synonyms Calophyllum edule Seem. Rheedia edulis (Seem.) Planch. & Triana Rheedia intermedia Pittier...
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    identified, it is probably in honor of Swiss-born geographer-botanist Henri François Pittier (1857–1950), who lived in Venezuela and collected some specimens...
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    Board in 1895, Swiss geographer and nearby Costa Rica resident Henri François Pittier warned that construction of the project would be difficult to carry...
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  • native to Venezuela. It was first described by Henri François Pittier in 1947. "Tibouchina catharinae Pittier", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic...
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  • Rica, 1944-48 (1981) Oscar J. Pinto F., soccer introducer (1974) Henri François Pittier, founder of the National Geographic Institute (1989) Max Planck...
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    where he befriended botanist Henri François Pittier, with whom he collaborated on studies of Swiss flora. When Pittier later moved to Costa Rica, he...
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    taxonomist who first formally described the species, named it after Henri François Pittier, the Swiss botanist who collected specimen he examined. Its long...
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  • Garcinia magnifolia (category Taxa named by Henri François Pittier)
    original on 3 March 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2021. "Garcinia magnifolia (Pittier) Hammel". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 18 January 2021. "garcinia flower". pbbusinessgroup...
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  • where, along with Panama, they grow in the wild. First described by Henri François Pittier in 1910 (treated in the genus Talauma), it was later described and...
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  • Traugott Pursh George E. Post George R. Proctor Ghillean Prance Henri François Pittier Henri Perrier de la Bâthie Herman Silas Pepoon Illtyd Buller Pole-Evans...
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    Mabillard (born 1964), ski mountaineer and marathon mountain biker Henri François Pittier (1857–1950), geographer and botanist Bex is twinned with: Tuttlingen...
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  • Pedro Pérez Zeledón (1854–1930), Jurist and diplomat Pittier District – Henri François Pittier Pococí (canton) – Cacique Pococi Puerto Jiménez and Jiménez...
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    Museo Nacional de Costa Rica [es]", from collected specimens by Henri François Pittier in 1895. It gets its name from Tsaki, where first specimens were...
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  • Nees von Esenbeck Genera Plantarum Venezuelensium, a 1939 book by Henri François Pittier This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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  • several languages along with Swiss-Venezuelan geographer and botanist Henri François Pittier. Nicholls wrote many letters to Hooker, Sir William Thiselton-Dyer...
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    It is endemic to Costa Rica. The type specimen was collected by Henri François Pittier in the district of Juan Viñas. Alternate leaves moderately petiolate...
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    Costa Rican fungi focused on with material collected from 1887 by Henri François Pittier, from which they discovered several new species. They also produced...
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  • Marie Pitard (1873–1927) Pitcher – Zina Pitcher (1797–1872) PittierHenri François Pittier (1857–1950) P.J.Adey – Patricia J. Adey (born 1936) P.James...
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    Parque Löefling in Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela is named after him. Henri François Pittier (August 13, 1857, Bex, Switzerland – January 27, 1950, Caracas,...
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    Bentham described a variety, Platypodium elegans var. major. In 1917 Henri François Pittier described Platypodium maxonianum from Chiriquí, Panama, noting that...
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    Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 9: 815 (1926) Henri François Pittier, Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 13: 313 (1914) "Goethalsia Pittier | Plants of the World Online |...
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    because it was, in fact, known before. The pioneer ethnobiologist Henri François Pittier discussed the species using the name A. polystachyum. This name...
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  • 1937) July 31 – Ernest Chuard, politician (d. 1942) August 13 – Henri François Pittier, geographer and botanist (d. 1950) November 26 – Ferdinand de Saussure...
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  • Gehring as an entomological correspondent and friend. The botanist Henri François Pittier (1857-1950) dedicated his 1885 book The Flora of Pays d'Enhaut,...
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    appeared in 1896, and dealt with material collected from 1887 by Henri François Pittier. They also worked on the fungi collected by the 1897-99 Belgian...
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  • de Guanaco”. Acta Biologica Venezuelica. Caracas – Venezuela. PITTIER, HENRI FRANÇOIS, BADILLO FRANCERI, VICTOR M., LASSER, TOBÍAS., SCHNEE, L. Y LUCES...
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    (Wafer, Chatham and Weston). The largest rivers are the Genio and the Pittier, which drain their water into Wafer Bay. Sheer, 90-metre (300 ft) cliffs...
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