MercadoI

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Mercado, Ignatio

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

Born: 1648, Parañaque, P.I. Died: 1698, Bauan in Luzon, P.I.

career:

Augustinian friar working in several places in the Philippines; he collected and drew plants.

Author of a book on Philippine medicinal plants.¹

He is commemorated in the genus Mercadoa Naves (cf. Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936).

collections:

No record of any collections of this pre-Linnean collector.

literature:

(1) ‘Libro de medicinal de esta tierra y declaraciones de las virtudes de los orboles y plantas que están en estas islas Filipinas’ (revised and illustrated by P.Fr. Celestino Fernandez-Villar in Blanco, Flor. Filip. ed. 3, 4², 1880, VI, p. 1-63). For particulars on his MS. cf. Merrill in Bull. Bur. of Agric. Manila no 4, 1903, p. 10-11.

	Career Collections Literature
	Mercado, Ignatio
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	Born: 1648, Parañaque, P.I. Died: 1698, Bauan in Luzon, P.I.
	career: Augustinian friar working in several places in the Philippines; he collected and drew plants. Author of a book on Philippine medicinal plants.¹ He is commemorated in the genus Mercadoa Naves (cf. Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936).
	collections: No record of any collections of this pre-Linnean collector.
	literature: (1) ‘Libro de medicinal de esta tierra y declaraciones de las virtudes de los orboles y plantas que están en estas islas Filipinas’ (revised and illustrated by P.Fr. Celestino Fernandez-Villar in Blanco, Flor. Filip. ed. 3, 4², 1880, VI, p. 1-63). For particulars on his MS. cf. Merrill in Bull. Bur. of Agric. Manila no 4, 1903, p. 10-11.