Dataset of Burkhardt 2022 Encyclopaedia of Eponymic Plant Names

Author Lotte Burkhardt published in 2022 a free PDF entitled Encyclopedia of Eponymic Plant names. It consisted of two volumes, one listing all plant, algae, lichen, fossil etc. genera with the person they were named after. The other volume takes the list of poeple honored and lists the genera named after them. It can be found online here.

This dataset was created by Carmen Ulloa Ulloa by scraping the PDF of the names of people and genera. This set was then cleaned and annotated by the Women Plant Genera working group as part of our follow up work to a previous paper. Our hope is that by making this dataset publically available others will explore the world of genera and eponomy, looking at interesting stories of people for whom genera were named.

The team would be greatful for any updates or corrections to this data, and we plan to publish updated versions of this dataset accordingly.