> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 355](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212397) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10670-1) LSID 10670-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q557382) QID Q557382 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Tillandz (Til-landz), Elias Erici \[orig. Tillander\] (1640-1693), Swedish physician and botanist; studied in Åbo and Uppsala; Dr. med. Leiden 1670, later professor of medicine at Åbo \[Finland\]. **Abbreviated name**: *Tillandz* \[standard form in IPNI: *Tillandz*\] #### Herbarium and types Destroyed. #### Note We are indebted to P. Isoviita for supplying us with the material on which this entry is based. #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 586; Barnhart 3: 384 (d. 18 Feb 1693); BM 5: 2116, 8: 1311; (Hollander Hist. p. 12, 65; Dryander 3: 170; Frank 3 (Anh.): 104; Herder p. 201; Jackson p. 27, 170; KR p. 718-719 (detailed treatment); NI 1966; PR 9350-9351, 9137, ed. 1: 10088, 10314-10315; Rehder 1: 359; Saelan p. 503; TR 1422-1423. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Not. 1921: 32 (commemoration). - Carpelan, T., Finsk biogr. handb. 2: 2223-2224. 1903. - Elfving, F., Finsk Tidskr. 90: 27-44. 1921 (life and works). - Eriksson, G., Bot. hist. Sverige 88, 138, 140, 143. 1969. - Fries, R.E., Short hist. bot. Sweden 17. 1950. - Heikinheimo, I., Suomen elämä-kerrasto 768. 1955. - Hintikka, T.J., Aika 14: 181-188. 1920 (Finnish plant names in T.'s Catalogus). - Hirsch, A., ed., Biogr. lex. hervorrag. Ärzte ed. 3. 5: 591. 1962. - Hjelt, O.E.A., Försök att bestämma de af E. Tillandz i hans "Catalogus plantarum" upptagna vexter. 1869 (Not. Sällsk. Fauna Fl. fenn. Förh. 10), p. \[207\]-244. 2 Oct-6 Nov 1869. - Hulth, J.M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 1(8): 105. 1922. - Krok, Th.O.B.N., Bot. Not. 1919: 165-166 (on a catalogue of Åbo plants). - Mägdefrau, K., Gesch. Bot. 48, 50. 1973. - S-s, H.G., Nordisk familjebok 19: 309. 1933. - Skepparnabb, L., Mem. Soc. Fauna Fl. 15: 179-185. 1940; Elias Tillandz' växtbilder och växtnamn, Lovisa 1961, 173 p. (on sources of Icones novae). - Wein, V., Ann. Soc. zool.-bot. fenn. Vanamo 11: 189-411. 1930 (T.'s Catalogus plantarum (1683) im Lichte seiner Zeit erklärt und gewürdigt). #### Eponymy *Tillandsia* Linnaeus (1753). ### Publications ##### n.14.522. Catalogus plantarum **Title** *Catalogus plantarum* tàm in excultis quàm incultis locis prope Aboam superiori aestate nasci observatarum, in gratiam philo-botanicorum concinnatus ab Elia Til-Landz... D. \[ \] Maij 1673. Aboae (excusus â Petro Hansonio) \[1673\]. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Cat. pl.* **Notes** *Ed*. \[*1*\]: Mai 1693, p. \[1-31\]. *Copies*: H-UB, Roy. Libr. Stockholm, Libr. Karol. Inst. Stockholm. *Ed*. \[*2*\]: Mai 1683, p. \[1-72\]. *Copies*: H, H-UB, Peterson, Roy. Libr. Stockholm. – *Catalogus plantarum* quae prope Aboam tarn in excultis, quam incultis locis huc usque inventae sunt. In gratiam philo-botanicorum auctior editus. Accessêre praetéreà usitatiora Svetica atq; Finnonica nomina, cum brevi virtutum recensione. Collecta, ab Elia Til-Landz... mense Maij m.dc.lxxxiii. Aboae, (excusus â Johanne L. Wallio, ...) \[1683\]. Oct. – See KR p. 718 for further details, as well as the literature cited above (*biofile*), especially Hjelt (1869) and Wein (1930). ##### n.14.523. Icones novae **Title** Eliae Til-Landz... *Icones novae* in usum selectae, et catalogo plantarum promiscuè appensae. Sumptibus auth. Aboae, (Excudit Joh. L. Wallius, A.T.) 1683. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Icon. nov.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1683, p. \[1\]-160, (p. 3-160 have plates: 158 pl.). *Copies*: H, H-UB, Peterson, Roy. Libr. Stockholm. – See Skepparnabb 1940, 1961, and KR p. 719.