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### Author
La Llave, Pablo de (1773-1833), Mexican clergyman; for some time director of the Madrid botanical garden; member of the Cortes 1812; back to Mexico 1823; minister of justice 1823-1825; president of the Senate 1830.
**Abbreviated name**: *La Llave* \[standard form in IPNI: *La Llave*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Mexican material at [[Collection G|G]].
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 2: 393; BM 3: 1159; Colmeiro 1: clxxxiii; Enc. univ. 29: 354; GR p. 758; Hortus 3: 1198 ("Llave"); IH 2: 405; Jackson p. 138; Kew 3: 351; Langman p. 425; PR 5000; RS p. 111 Tucker 1: 407; Zander ed. 10, p. 686.
- Colmeiro, M., Bot. bot. peninsula hisp.-lus. 201. 1858.
- Miller, Taxon 19: 529. 1970.
- Sosa, La Naturaleza 7: 79-81. 1887.
- Standley, P. C., Trees and shrubs of Mexico 788. 1923.
#### Notes
La Llave signed himself "Pablo dela Llave" on the copy of the *Nov. veg. descr.* sent by him to von Martius (NY); it is probably more correct to list the author as "Llave, P. de la." – La Llave dedicated several new genera of plants to the heroes of the Mexican war of independence.
#### Eponymy
*Llavea* Lagasca (1816); *Llavea* Liebmann (1854).
### Publications
##### n.4131. Novorum vegetabilium descriptiones
**Title**
*Novorum vegetabilium descriptiones*. In lucem prodeunt opera Paulli de La Llave et Joannis Lexarza Reip. Mexic. civ... Méxici (Apud Martínum Riveram) 1824-1825, 2 parts. Fol.
**Abbreviated title**: *Nov. veg. descr.*
**Notes**
*Co-author*: Juan Martinez de Lexarza (1785-1824).
*Fasc. 1*: 1824, p. \[i-viii\], \[1\]-32.
*Fasc. 2*: 1825, p. \[i-vi\], 1-13, *Orchidianum opusculum*: 1-43.
*Copies*: MICH, NY, Regensburg, US; IDC 6001.
*Reprint*: 1882, appendix to La Naturaleza, tome 5, newly composed type. *Fasc. 1*: \[1\]-26, *fasc. 2*: \[1\]-14, *Orchidianum opusculum* \[1\]-26, t.p. imprint as orig., on fasc. 2: 26 "Mexico, Diciembre de 1881. – Por la Comision de publicaciones, Jesus Sanchez." *Copies*: MO, USDA.