Pierre Edmond Boissier (25 May 1810 Geneva – 25 September 1885 Valeyres-sous-Rances) was a Swiss prominent botanist, explorer and mathematician[citation...
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Euphorbia leuconeura (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
Euphorbia leuconeura is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae. Its common name is Madagascar jewel. It is endemic to Madagascar where...
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(born 1953) Pierre Augustin Boissier de Sauvages (1710–1795), French naturalist and encyclopedist Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810–1885), Swiss botanist,...
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Euphorbia ingens (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
Euphorbia ingens is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae. It is native to dry areas of southern Africa. It is popularly known as the...
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Euphorbia royleana (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
Euphorbia royleana is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae. It is also known as Sullu spurge, and Royle's spurge. It is a succulent...
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Texas wild olive. It is named after the Swiss explorer and botanist Pierre Edmond Boissier. Cordia boissieri reaches a height of 5–7 m (16–23 ft), with a symmetrical...
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Scilla luciliae (redirect from Boissier's glory-of-the-snow)
epithet is in honour of Lucile, the wife of the Swiss botanist Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810-1885). It belongs to a group of Scilla species that were formerly...
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Zataria (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
Zataria is a genus of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1876. It contains only one known species, Zataria multiflora, native...
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Lavandula lanata (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
Lavandula lanata, the woolly lavender, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, native to southern Spain. An evergreen dwarf shrub growing...
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Origanum laevigatum (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
Origanum laevigatum is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, native to Cyprus, Syria, and Turkey. Growing to 50–60 cm (20–24 in) tall by...
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Abies pinsapo (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
Abies pinsapo, Spanish fir, is a species of tree in the family Pinaceae, native to southern Spain and northern Morocco. Related to other species of Mediterranean...
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Festuca pseudoeskia (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
Festuca pseudeskia is a species of grass in the family Poaceae. It is endemic to the Sierra Nevada of southern Spain. "Festuca pseudeskia Boiss". Plants...
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Origanum rotundifolium (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
Origanum rotundifolium, the round-leaved oregano, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, native to Turkey, Armenia and Georgia. It is...
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Carex cilicica (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
Carex cilicica is a tussock-forming species of perennial sedge in the family Cyperaceae. It is native to parts of the Middle East. List of Carex species...
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Astragalus eriopodus (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
Astragalus eriopodus is a species of milkvetch in the family Fabaceae. "Astragalus eriopodus Boiss". Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal...
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Megacaryon (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
Megacaryon orientale is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae. It is the sole species in genus Megacaryon. It is a biennial native to...
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Ferula hermonis (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d. Retrieved 26 August 2020. Boissier, Pierre Edmond 1873. Flora Orientalis sive enumeratio plantarum in Oriente a Graecia...
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Astragalus chrysostachys (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
Astragalus chrysostachys is a species of milkvetch in the family Fabaceae. "Astragalus chrysostachys Boiss". Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of...
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Bellevalia paradoxa (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
Bellevalia paradoxa is a bulb forming plant in the genus Bellevalia of the family Asparagaceae, formerly classified in the genus Muscari, under which name...
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Papaver rupifragum (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
Papaver rupifragum is a species of flowering plant in the poppy family, Papaveraceae. It is native to Morocco and Spain. Wikispecies has information related...
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Astragalus vanillae (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
Astragalus vanillae is a species of milkvetch in the family Fabaceae. "Astragalus vanillae Boiss". Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal...
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Rhamnus persica (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
Rhamnus persica is a species of plant in the family Rhamnaceae. "Rhamnus persica Boiss". Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal Botanic...
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Astragalus fasciculifolius (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
Astragalus fasciculifolius is a species of milkvetch in the family Fabaceae. Its resin is sometimes used in place of the true fleshglue, A. sarcocolla...
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Podocytisus (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
Podocytisus caramanicus is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is a shrub native to the western Balkan Peninsula and southern Turkey...
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Astragalus murinus (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
Astragalus murinus is a species of milkvetch in the family Fabaceae. It is native to Iran. "Astragalus murinus Boiss". Plants of the World Online. The...
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Lolium persicum (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
Lolium persicum is a species of flowering plant in the family Poaceae. It is referred to by the common names Persian darnel or Persian ryegrass, and is...
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Carex asturica (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
Carex asturica is a tussock-forming species of perennial sedge in the family Cyperaceae. It is native to parts of Spain and Portugal. List of Carex species...
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Bienertia (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
Bienertia is a flowering plant genus that currently is classified in the family Amaranthaceae s.l. (including the family Chenopodiaceae). For long time...
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Salix acmophylla (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
Salix acmophylla, also known as brook willow, is a willow native to central Asia, the Middle East and Egypt. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Salix...
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Astragalus macrosemius (category Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier)
Astragalus macrosemius is a species of milkvetch in the family Fabaceae. It is endemic to Iran. "Astragalus macrosemius Boiss. & Hohen". Plants of the...
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