Biography
João Barbosa Rodrigues, Brazilian naturalist (São Gonçalo do Sapucaí, Minas Gerais State 22 June 1842 – Rio de Janeiro 06 March 1909)
Performed studies about botany, etnography, archaeology, climatography and phytogeography
ACHIEVEMENTS
Botany
Discovered 538 orchid species that were described by Martius in Flora Brasiliensis
Described 20 valid genera of plants in Brazilian flora (being 16 of them from Orchidaceae family ), 347 new species of Orchidaceae family and 382 new species of Arecaceae plants
Published Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, that attained international repercussion (1903)
Published Genera et specie orchidearum novarum (1877-82), with diagnoses of more than 700 orchid species, recognized with a Gold Medal from Academie des Sciences de Paris
Others
Described fossil reptile genus and species Purussaurus brasiliensis 1891
Performed physiological studies about curare and its antidote (1878)
Formulated pariquine, a medicamentous preparation against hepatic disturbances that learned from Parinquins natives (1894)
Conceived a collapsible compass for cranial and bizygomatic measures
Studied indigenous botanical nomenclature
Defined the various types of curare in according to its utility
L’uiraery ou curare. Extraits et complément des notes d’un naturaliste brésilien (1903)
Paleontology
Les reptiles fossiles de la vallée de l’Amazone (1892)
Archaeology
O muyrakytã e os idolos symbolicos. Estudo da origem asiática da civilização do Amazonas nos tempos pré-históricos. Part II (1899)
Antiguidades do Amazonas. I- Armas e instrumentos de pedras; II- Arte Cerâmica; III-Aterros sepulchraes; IV- Sernambys; V- Inscripções (1892)
O muyrakytã. Estudo da origem asiática da civilização do Amazonas nos tempos pré-históricos. Part I (1889)
O Muirakitan, precioso acervo coevo do homem ante-colombiano (1882)
Antiguidades do Amazonas (1879)
Idolo amazonico, achado no rio Amazonas (1875)
HONORS
Brodriguesia Cowan 1981 (Fabaceae)
Barbosella Schlechter 1918 (Orchidaceae)
Barbrodria Luer 1981 (Orchidaceae)
