De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum

De Frúctibus et Semínibus Plantárum (lat.) Is a three-volume treatise on botany by the German botanist and physician Joseph Gertner (1732-1791) in Latin. The first volume was published in December 1788. The second volume in four parts was published in 1790, 1791, 1791 and 1792, respectively.

De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum
Cover page of the second volume
Author	Joseph Gertner
Genre	Botany
Original language	Latin
Original published	1788 - 1792

The full title of the work is “ De fructibus et seminibus plantarum: accedunt seminum centuriae quinque priores cum tabulis aeneis ”. The standard abbreviation used to refer to this work when citing in scientific works is Fruct. Sem. Pl. ^[one]

The work used information about plants from more than a thousand genera , descriptions are given on Australian and Pacific samples from the collection of Sir Joseph Banks and on South African samples from the collection of Karl Peter Tunberg . The work mainly investigated the fruits and seeds of plants, their morphology and classification . The information presented and systematized in the book served as the basis for the science of fruits - carpology . This scientific work was an outstanding achievement for its time.

The last (third) volume, known as Supplementum Carpologicae , was published after the death of Gertner in 1805-1807 by his son Karl Friedrich von Gertner . To refer to the third volume of work, the abbreviation Suppl is used. Carp. ^[2] .