Manuel Blanco Ramos

Born in Navianos de Alba, Castilla y León, Spain, Blanco was a member of the Augustinian order of friars.

Towards the end of his life, he became the delegate of his order in Manila, traveling throughout the archipelago.

Según el sistema de Linneo (Flora of the Philippines according to the system of Linnaeus) which followed after the work done by Georg Joseph Kamel.

Celestine Fernandez Villar (1838-1907), together with others including Antonio Llanos, published an illustrated posthumous edition from 1877 to 1883, printed by C. Verdaguer of Barcelona.

[3] The botanist Carl Ludwig Blume (1789-1862) named the genus Blancoa of the family Palmae in his honor.

Blanco painted by Philippine painter Juan Arzeo 1845
Illustrated edition of Flora de Filipinas , 1877–1883
Kalanchoe pinnata illustrated in Blanco's Flora de Filipinas