> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 357](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120488) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/16584-1) LSID 16584-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1032088) QID Q1032088 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Brotero, Felix de Avellar (1744-1828), Portuguese botanist, professor of botany at Coimbra in the later part of his life. **Abbreviated name**: *Brot.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Brot.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection LISU|LISU]] (only 337 specimens left), some material also in the Bernhardi herbarium at [[Collection MO|MO]]. *Ref*.: IH 2: 100. - Pereira Coutinho, Arq. Univ. Lisboa 3: 333-379. 1916. - d'Arcy, Missouri Bot. Gard. Bull. 59(1): 24. 1971. #### Bibliography and biography AG 2(1): 559, 5(2): 409, 550, 6(2): 939, 947; Barnhart 1: 258; BM 1: 77; Bossert p. 54; Colmeiro p. clxii; CSP 1: 656; GR p. 766 (q.v. for some Port. sources); Jackson p. 341, 484; Kew 1: 386; Langman p. 97; LS 4156-4157; NI 247-248; PR 1192-1198. - Anon., Flora 12: 240. 21 Apr 1829. - Hooker, Bot. Mag., Comp. new series 1845: 37-42. - Denis, Nouv. Biogr. gén. 7: 511-513. - Colmeiro, Bot. hisp. lusit. 176-178. 1858. - Fournier, in Baillon, Dict. bot. 1: 499. 1876. - Tavares, Broteria 1: ix-xiii. 1902. - Wittrock, Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 168. 1903, 3(3): 182. 1905 (ref. to portr.) See also Milner, Cat. Portr. Kew 19. 1906. - Sampaio, Águia ser. 2. 2: 60-62. 1912. - Coutinho, Arquiv. Univ. Lisboa 3: 333-379. 1916. - Backer, Verkl. woordenboek 85. 1936. - Fernandes et al., Bol. Soc. Broter. ser. 2. 19: lxxiv-xciii. 1944 (portr., bibl.) - Luisier, Broteria Ci. nat., 13(4): 146-158. 1944 (bibl.) - Pires de Lima, Publ. Inst. bot. Samapaio, Porto 1: 1-17. 1944. - Pires de Lima e Santos, Publ. Inst. bot. Sampaio, Porto 1: 1-44. 1944 (correspondence). - Fernandes, Rev. Fac. Cienc. Univ. Coimbra, 14: 51-108. 1945. - Rivas Goday, Bol. real. Soc. Espan. Hist. nat. 43(7/'): 405-417. 1945. - Rivas Goday, Bol. real. Soc. Espanola 1945: 405-410. - Pires de Lima, Ann. Soc. Broter. 12: 5-15. 1946 (Publ. Inst. bot. Sampaio, Porto no. 26) (3 letters). - Pires de Lima, Publ. Inst. bot. Sampaio, Porto 33: 1-11. 1948 (iconography). - Fernandes, Anuario Soc. Brot. 16: 25-51. *pl. I.* 1950. - Bourdon, Ann. Soc. Brot. 36: 9-86. 1970 (letters to Valorado). - Dolezal, Friedrich Welwitsch 233 \[index\]. 1974. #### Eponymy (genera) *Brotera* Cavanilles (1799); *Brotera* K. P. J. Sprengel (1801); *Brotera* K. P. J. Sprengel (1802); *Brotera* Vellozo (1825); *Brotera* Willdenow (1803); *Broteroa* A. P. de Candolle (1836, *orth. var.* of *Brotera* K. P. J. Sprengel (1801); *Broteroa* O. Kuntze (1891, *orth. var. of Brotera* Willdenow (1803); (journals): *Brotéria* revista de sciencias naturaes do Collegio de S. Fiel, Lisboa. Vol. 1-25, 1902-1931. From Vol. 6. 1907 subdivided in *I Parte Serie Zoologica* and *II Parte Serie Botanica*. From Vol. 28. 1932 these two series are combined in *Série trimestrial*; *Ciênciàs Naturais*, Lisboa. Vol. 1-x, 1932-x; *Boletim da sociedade broteriana*. Coimbra. Vol. 1-28, 1880-1920; Ser. 2. Vol. 1-x, 1922-x. #### Handwriting Publ. Inst. bot. Sampaio, Porto 1: *pl. 1-30.* 1944, ib. 26: *pl. 1-12.* 1947. #### Memorial volume Bol. Soc. Broter. 19. 1944. #### Postage stamps Portugal I.75 esc. (1944) yv. 654; 50 c. (1944) yv. 652. ### Publications ##### n.809. Compendio de botanica **Title** *Compendio de botanica*, ou noçoens elementares desta sciencia, segundo os melhores escritores modernos, expostas na lingua Portugueza. Paris, Lisboa (Paulo Martin) 1788, 2 vols. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Comp. bot.* **Notes** *Ed. 1*: 1788. *Vol. 1*: p. \[i\]-lxxvi, \[1\]-471. *Copies*: G, HU, UC. *Vol. 2*: p. \[1\]-411, \[4, err.\], *pl. 1-31. Copies*: G, HU, UC. *Ed. 2*: Compendio de botanica do Doutor Felix de Avellar Brotero, addicionado e posto em harmonía com os conhecimentos actuaes desta sciencia, segundo os botanicos mais celebres, como Mirbel, De Candolle, Richard, Lecocq, e outros... Por Antonio Albino da Fonseca Benerides... Lisboa (Academica Real das Sciencias) 1837-1839, 2 vols. Qu. *Vol. 1*: 1837 (p.v.: 11 Feb 1837), p. \[i\*-viii\*\], i-xi, \[i\]-xxiii, \[1\]-401, *6 pl*., nos. 1/2, 3/4, 5/6, 7/8, 9/10, n/12, \[2, errata\]. *Copy*: NY. *Vol. 2*: 1839, p. \[i\]-vii, i-vii, 1-668, \[1, err.\], *pl. 1-25. Copy*: NY. *Ref*.: BM 1: 77; Kew 1: 386: PR 1192. - Pritzel, Bot. Zeit. 1: 560-562. 18 Aug 1843. ##### n.810. Phytographia Lusitaniae selectior **Title** *Phytographia Lusitaniae selectior*, seu novarum et aliarum minus cognitarum stirpium, quae in Lusitania sponte veniunt, descriptiones. Fascic. I.us Lisboa (Ad Arcum Caeci) 1800. Fol. \[n.v., title fide Sampaio\]. †. **Abbreviated title**: *Phytogr. Lusitan. select.* (*n.v.*) **Notes** *Publ*.: 1800 (t.p.) Copy at Faculdade de Ciencias, Universidade do Porto. This was the first fascicle of no. 811, with 8 plates and 35 \[?\] pages (PR mentions 84 p., Schrader 20 folio sheets, König et Sims "plag. 19"). This first edition was withdrawn by Brotero because of various deficiencies (Sampaio). *Ref*.: BM 1: 77; NI 247; PR 1196 note; SY; IDC 6437. - Anon., J. Bot. Schrader 1801 (1, 2): 435-443. 1803. - König et Sims, Ann. Bot. 1(1): 111. 1805. - Sampaio, Águia ser. 2. 2: 60-62. 1912. ##### n.811. Phytographia Lusitaniae selectior **Title** *Phytographia Lusitaniae selectior*, seu novarum, rariorum, et aliarum minus cognitarum stirpium, quae in Lusitania sponte veniunt, ejusdemque floram spectant, descriptiones iconibus illustratae. Lisboa (Typographia Regia) 1816-1827, 2 vols. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Phytogr. Lusit. select.* **Notes** *Vol. 1*: 1816 (in fascicles of which the contents and dates are unknown), p. \[i-vii\], 1-235, \[236, err.\], *pl. 1-82.* The original first fascicle (see above, 810) was corrected. *Copies*: HH, HU, USDA. *Vol. 2*: 1827, p. \[1\]-263, \[264, err.\], *pl. 83-181. Copies*: HH. The plates are uncoloured copper engravings by Ferreira and Queirioz. The Stiftung für Botanik copy has a portrait of the author (added later?). *Ref*.: BM 1: 77; Kew 1: 386; LS 4157; NI 248; Plesch p. 159; PR 1196; IDC 5629. - Sampaio, Aguia 2: 60-62. 1912. - Sotheby, Cat. Stiftung Botanik 77. 1975 (sold at £ 420). ##### n.812. Flora lusitanica **Title** *Flora lusitanica*, seu plantarum, quae in Lusitania vel sponte crescunt, vel frequentius coluntur, ex florum praesertim sexubus systematice distributarum, synopsis. Lisboa (Typographia Regia) 1804 \[-1805\], 2 vols. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. lusit.* **Notes** *Vol. 1*: 1804, p. \[i\]-xviii, \[1\]-607. *Copy*: HH. *Vol. 2*: 10 Jul 1805 (fide Sayre; Monthly Lit. Adv. 2; JGE 20 Feb 1806, J. Phys. Mar 1806), p. \[1\]-557, \[558, err.\]. *Copy*: HH. -The dating of books during the "Napoleonic pause" is notoriously difficult. Both volumes are dated 1804, but the first proofs (available to us) of the publication of vol. 2 are from the middle of 1805. Some names must be attributed to Link or Hoffmannsegg (Rothmaler 1940). *Ref*.: BM 1: 77; Jackson p. 341; Kew 1: 386; LS 4156; PR 1194; SY; IDC 5041. - Link, Neues J. Bot. Schrader 1(3): 128-148. 1806. - Roemer, Collect, rem. bot. spectantia 261-267. 1809. - Rothmaler, Repert. Sp. nov. 49: 53-54. 1940.