> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 847](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355934) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7170-1) LSID 7170-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q957993) QID Q957993 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Ortega, Casimiro Gomez \[de\] (1740-1818), Spanish botanist; director of the Madrid botanical Garden 1771-1801. **Abbreviated name**: *Ort.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Ortega*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection MA|MA]]; other material at [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection E|E]] (in herb. Giseke), [[Collection H|H]], and [[Collection P|P]]-HAL. #### Note on name Often alphabetized as Gomez Ortega, G. \[de\]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2: 62, 3: 33; BM 3: 1479; Colmeiro 1: clxxvii-clxxviii, penins. p. 125, 166-169; Dawson p. 641-642; Dryander 3: 22, 27, 33, 146, 286,481; Frank 3(Anh.): 73; Herder p. 77, 94, 141; Hortus 3: 1201 ("Ort."); Jackson p. 446; Kew 4: 195-196; Langman p. 321; NAF ser. 2. 2: 158; NI 1472-1473; Plesch p. 352; PR 6851-6859 (ed. 1: 7652-7660); Rehder 5: 637; RS p. 85; SO 450, 587, 588, 589, 689; Sotheby no. 576; TL-1/937-938, 1017; TL-2/see A. v. Haller; Tucker 1: 531; Zander ed. 10, p. 698; ed. 11, p. 796. - Anon., Encicl. univ. illustr., Barcelona, 26: 559-560. 1925. - Dandy, J. E., Regn. veg. 51: 17, passim. 1967 (on O's generic names of 1773). - Dawson, W. R., Smith papers 72. 1934. - Harvey, J. H., Garden Hist. 2(3): 22-26. 1974 (b. 1741, d. 1810); 3(2): 22. 1975 (correction: b. 4 Mar 1740, d. 30 Aug 1818; cites paper by Roldan y Guerrero at 15th Int. Congr. Hist. Med., Madrid 1956). - Kukkonen, I., Herb. of Chr. Steven 76. 1971. - Leon, N., Bibl. bot.-mexic. 204. 1895. - Muñoz Medina, D. J., Hist. desarr. bot. España 11. 1969. - Murray, G., Hist. coll. BM(NH) 1: 172. 1904 (pl. sent to Banks, 1777). - Rothmaler, W., Rep. Spec. nov. 49: 54-56. 1940 (on Tabulae botanicae). - Stafleu, F. A., Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 290. 1971. - Steele, A. R., Flowers for the King 366 \[index; many entries!\]. 1964. - Urban, I., Symb. ant. 1: 119-120. 1898. #### Composite works Quer y Martinez, J., *Flora española*,continuacion... ordenada... y publicada... por C. G. de Ortega, vols. 5 & 6, Madrid 1784, see under Quer. #### Eponymy *Ortega* Linnaeus (1753) [^1], corr. *Ortegia* Linnaeus (1754); *Ortegaea* Post et O. Kuntze (1903, *orth. var.*). *Note*: *Ortegocactus* E. J. Alexander (1961) honors the Ortega family of San José Lachiguirí, Mexico. ### Publications ##### n.7108. Tabulae botanicae **Title** Casimiri Gomezii Ortegae,... *Tabulae botanicae*,in quibus classes, sectiones, et genera plantarum in Institutionibus Tournefortianis tradita synoptice exhibentur, in usum praelectionum botanicarum. Matriti \[Madrid\] (apud Joachimum Ibarra,...) 1773. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Tab. bot.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1773, p. \[1\]-39. *Copy*: FI. – Ortega validated some Tournefortian names hitherto not taken up by any other author. See Rothmaler (1940) for a list of notes and new combinations. *Later edition*: *Tablas botánicas*, 1783, see below. ##### n.7109. Historia natural de la Malagueta **Title** *Historia natural de la Malagueta*, o pimienta de tavasco, y noticia de los usos, virtudes y exêncion \[sic\] de derechos de esta saludable y gustosa especia, con la lámina de su arbol... Madrid (por D. Joachin \[sic\] Ibarra impresor de Cámara de S.M.) 1780. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Hist. nat. Malagueta*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1780, frontisp., \[i\], 1-34. *Copy*: PH. ##### n.7110. Tablas botánicas **Title** *Tablas botánicas*, en que se explican sumariamente las clases, secciones y géneros de plantes que trae Tournefort en sus Instituciones: á que se anaden en cada género los nombres Españoles de muchas especies de vegetables, y la explicacion de algunas voces facultativas. Para el uso de varias lecciones y herborizaciones botánicas... en Madrid (en la Imprenta real) 1783. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Tabl. bot.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1783, p. \[i-xvi\], \[1\]-167, \[36 unnumbered p.\]. *Copies*: National Library of Scotland (inf. J. Edmonston), HU (inf. R. Kiger). – A much enlarged Spanish version of the 1773 *Tab. bot.* (see above). The UH copy has also a Latin t.p., *Tabulae botanicae*,... Matriti (ex Typographia Regia) 1783. ##### n.7111. Curso elemental de botánica **Title** *Curso elemental de botánica*, teórico y práctico, dispuesto para la enseñaza del Real Jardin botánico de Madrid... en Madrid (en la Imprenta Real) 1785. **Abbreviated title**: *Curso elem. bot.* **Notes** *Co-author*(ed. 1): Antonio Paula y Verdera (x-1793). *Ed. 1*: 1785 (J. libr. 15 Apr 1786). *Copy*: WU (inf. W. Gutermann). *Parle teórica*: p. \[i\*-xii\*\], \[i\]-xiv, \[1\]-226. *Parte práctica*: p. \[i\*-iv\*\], \[i\]-xl, 1-184. *Ed. 2*: 1795. *Copies*: FI, HU, NY, USDA. – Segunda edicion corregida, aumentada é ilustrada con láminas... En Madrid (en la Imprenta de la viuda é hijo de Marin) 1795. Qu. *Parte téorica*: engr. t.p., p. \[i-xvi\], 1-256, *pl. 1-9* (uncol. copp.). *Parte práctica*: p. \[i\]-xliv, \[1\]-240, *1 pl*. (id., syst. sex.). *Italian translation* see below, *Corso elementare teorico di botanico*. *Mexican ed*. (of ed. 1): mentioned by TR (6858): "por D. Felipe de Zuñiga y Ontiveros 1788." Qu. ix, 108 p. ##### n.7112. Corso elementare teorico di botanico **Title** *Corso elementare teorico di botanico* ed introduzione alla parte pratica per l'ammaestramento che si fa nel r. Giardino di Madrid... traduzione dalla Spagnuola, Parma (dalla Reale Stamperia) 1888. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Corso elem. bot.* **Notes** *Translation by*: Giambattista Gualteri. *Ed. 1*: 1788, p. \[i\*-xii\*\], i-xxx, 1-328, i-xxix, 2 charts. *Copies*: BR, MICH, PH. *Ed. 2*: An I. Repub. Ital. (1796-1797; Cispadane republic founded Oct 1796), p. \[i\]-xxxviii, 1-242, i-xxviii. *Copy*: FI. – Nuova edizione reveduta, e corretta. Brescia (dalla Tipografia dipartimentale). ##### n.7113. Philosophia botanica **Title** Caroli Linnaei, botanicorum principis, *Philosophia botanica*, annotationibus, explanationibus, supplementis aucta cura, et opera Casimiri Gomez Ortega... accedunt J. Andr. Murray nomina trivialia. Matriti (ex typogr. viduae, et filii Petri Marin.) 1792. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Philos. bot.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1792, p. \[i\*\], i-viii, \[1\]-426, *11 pl*. (*pl. 11* on p. 307). *Copy*: NY. – Heavily annotated and amended version of Linnaeus, C., *Philosophia botanica* (1751). See SO 450 and also TL-2/4760 under no. 12. ##### n.7114. novarum, aut rariorum plantarum **Title** Casimiri Gomezii Ortegae *novarum, aut rariorum plantarum* horti reg. botan. matrit. descriptionum *decades*, cum nonnullarum iconibus... Superiorum permisso. Matriti \[Madrid\] (ex typographia Ibarriana) 1797-1800. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Nov. pl. descr. dec.* **Notes** *1-4*: 1797, p. \[i-viii\], \[1\]-51, *pl. 1-6* (uncol. copp. by Is. Galvez). *5-6*: 1798, p. \[i-iv\], 53-80, *pl. 7-10* (preface: pridie Idus maj.). *7-8*: 1798, p. \[i-iv\], 81-108, *pl. 11-13.* *9-10*: 1800, p. \[i\], 109-138, *pl. 14-18.* *Copies*: MICH, NY, USDA (1-4); IDC 5531; *General t.p.* (copies: NY, PH): Casimiri Gomezii Ortegae,... novarum... iconibus. Centuria I. Superiorum permissu Matriri mdccc. Ex typographia mariniana. [^1]: "*Ortega* L. 1753 (Caryophyllaceae) \[is dedicated to\] José Ortega (?–1761), Spanish (Army-) pharmacist under the reign of Ferdinand VI, accompanied Loefling. He was secretary at the Real Academia de Medicina Madrid and Casimiro Gómez Ortega’s uncle (1741–1818) (Loefling, 1758: VII–XX; Pax & Hoffmann, 1934: 309); and likewise: *Ortegaea* T.Post & Kuntze 1903 (Caryophyllaceae) which is an orth. var. of *Ortega* L. 1753. *Ortegia* L. 1754 (Caryophyllaceae) This *Ortegia* is a spelling correction by Linnaeus (1754: 21)." Burkhardt, L. (2016). About some eponyms in Taxonomic literature (TL-2). _Taxon_, _65_(1), 137–145. [https://doi.org/10.12705/651.9](https://doi.org/10.12705/651.9)