Fernando Altamirano

Fernando Altamirano (Fernando Altamirano-Carbajal) (1848-1908) was a Mexican physician, botanist and naturalist. He was born in Queretaro in 1848 and died in Mexico City in 1908. Altamirano was the founder and the director of the National Medical Institute of Mexico (Instituto Medico Nacional) from 1888 to 1908.

He published more than 250 papers on pharmacology of Mexican plants and on physiology. He was also interested in the industrial uses of Mexican plants.

Altamirano collaborated with many internationally recognized botanist of the period, like Joseph Nelson Rose , George Russell Shaw and Edward Janczewski.

At least, one genus and nine species of plants and animals were named after him, many of them by Joseph Nelson Rose.

Genus and Species named after Fernando Altamirano

*"Altamiranoa" (Rose, 1903)
*"Eryngium altamiranoi" (Hemsl. & Rose, 1906)
*"Pinus altamiranoi" (Shaw in Sargent, 1905)
*"Bumelia altamiranoi" (Rose & Standl., 1924)
*"Coryphantha altamiranoi" (Britton & Rose, 1923)
*"Leucophyllum altamiranii" (Urbina, 1906)
*"Phytolacca altamiranii" (Ramirez Goyena, 1909)
*"Ribes altamirani" (Janczewski, 1906)
*"Mesoscincus altamirani" (Dugés, 1891)
*"Ambystoma altamirani" (Dugés, 1895)

Species named by Fernando Altamirano

*"Euphorbia elastica" (Altam. & Rose, 1905)

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