Castore Durante
Castore Durante (* 1529 in Gualdo Cattaneo, † 1590 in Viterbo ) was an Italian physician and botanist and physician to Pope Sixtus V.
Ehrentaxon
Charles Plumier named in his honor, the genus of the plant family Castorea the verbena family ( Verbenaceae ). Carl Linnaeus rejected the name and named the genus Duranta. Philip Miller attacked later the generic name Castorea again.
Writings (selection )
- Herbario novo. 1585th
- Il tesoro della Sanità. 1586th
- Herbario novo. Sessa, Venice 1602 (online).