> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 598](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355685) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123682416) QID Q123682416 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Mortier, Edouard Louis (1801-1852), fictitious French naturalist said to have been a botanical explorer of South America. **Abbreviated name**: *==Name in the standard form is not specified==.* #### Note Fictitious botanist figuring in a commercial American encyclopaedia (Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography 4: 429. 1888), see Barnhart, J. H., J. New York Bot. Gard. 20: 176. 1919. Among the titles ascribed to him were *Historia plantarum circa Cayenne sponte crescentium (*1843), and *Prodromus florae brasilicae*(2 vols. 1849). #### Eponymy *Aquamortierella*R. W. Embree & H. Indoh (1967) and *Mortierella*E. Coemans (1863) commemorate Barthélémy Charles Joseph Dumortier (1797-1878), q.v. These eponyms were not mentioned in TL-2(1).