> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 276](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189747) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7729-1) LSID 7729-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1385325) QID Q1385325 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Piso, Willem (ca. 1611-1678), Dutch physician, pharmacist and botanist; M.D. Caen 1633; practicing physician at Amsterdam; in Brazil as physician of the Dutch settlement (1633-1644) with Johan Maurits van Nassau. **Abbreviated name**: *Piso* \[standard form in IPNI: *Piso*\] #### Herbarium and types Part of the Marcgrave herbarium is at [[Collection C|C]]; see under G. Marcgrave. #### Note See G. Marcgrave (TL-2/3: 286-287) for further information; see NI 1533 for further information on the *Historia naturalis Brasiliae*. 1648. #### Bibliography and biography Aa 15: 322-333; Backer p. 447; Barnhart 2: 89; BM 3: 1579-1580; Dryander 3: 462; DSB 10: 621-622 (bibl., sec. refs.); Frank 3(Anh.) p. 77; Herder p. 56, 140; JW 3: 365, 4: 401-402, 5: 249; Kew 4: 317; Lasègue p. 343, 474, 505; Lenley p. 328; NI 1533, see also 1: 78, 82, 83; NNBW 9: 805-806; PR 972, 5911, 7157-7158, ed. 1: 8036-8037; Rehder 5: 674; TL-2/5546; see G. Marcgrave; Tucker 1: 558. #### Biofile - Andel, M.A. van, Opusc. sel. neerl. arte med. 14: i-xxxviii. 1937 (see also ib. 10, 1931 for an account of de Bondt, who edited the second ed. of the Hist. nat. bras.). - Andrade-Lima, D. et al., Bot. Tidsskr. 71: 121-160. 1977 (see also sub Marcgrave). - Barnhart, J.H., J. New York Bot. Gard. 30: 154. 1929. - Bartlett, H.H., 55 Rare books 1949, no. 31. - Ewan, J. & N., John Banister 482 \[index\]. 1970; Regn. veg. 71: 19, 21, 50. 1970. - Fries, T.M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 1(5): 67. 1911. - Hulth, J.M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 2(1): 34. 1916. - Hulth, J.M. & A.H. Uggla, Bref Skrifv. Linné. 2(2): 83, 84, 161, 162. 1943. - J., Dict. Sci. méd., Biogr. méd. 6: 425-426. 1824. - Jessen, K.F.W., Bot. Gegenw. Vorz. 269, 272. 1884. - Junk, W., Rara 1: 50. 1900-1913. - Papavero, N., Essays hist. neotrop. dipterol. 1: 3, 13. 1971. - Pickel, B.J., Revista fl. medic. 16(6): 211-280. 1949 (Piso & Marcgrave in Brazilian botany). - Poiret, J.L.M., Encycl. méth., Bot. 8: 748. 1808. - Urban, I., Fl. bras. 1(1): 76-77. 1906 (q.v. for further secondary literature). #### Eponymy *Pisoa* Cothenius (1790, *orth. var.* of *Pisonia* Linnaeus); *Pisonia* Linnaeus (1753) and the derived genus *Pisoniella* (Heimerl) Standley (1911).