Friedrich Ehrendorfer (born 26 July 1927 in Vienna) is a professor emeritus of plant systematics at the Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna. [1] [2] He is an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [3] For several years, he co-authored one of the leading university text-books in botany (Strasburger). [4]
The standard author abbreviation Ehrend. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name . [5]
George Bentham was an English botanist, described by the weed botanist Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century". Born into a distinguished family, he initially studied law, but had a fascination with botany from an early age, which he soon pursued, becoming president of the Linnaean Society in 1861, and a fellow of the Royal Society in 1862. He was the author of a number of important botanical works, particularly flora. He is best known for his taxonomic classification of plants in collaboration with Joseph Dalton Hooker, his Genera Plantarum (1862–1883). He died in London in 1884.
Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species. His last official act as president of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina was to admit Charles Darwin as a member. He was the author of numerous monographs on botany and zoology. His best-known works deal with fungi.
Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin was a scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany.
Eduard Adolf Strasburger was a Polish-German professor and one of the most famous botanists of the 19th century. He discovered mitosis in plants.
Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel was a Dutch botanist, whose main focus of study was on the flora of the Dutch East Indies.
Friedrich August Ferdinand Christian Went was a Dutch botanist.
Merritt Lyndon Fernald was an American botanist. He was a respected scholar of the taxonomy and phytogeography of the vascular plant flora of temperate eastern North America. During his career, Fernald published more than 850 scientific papers and wrote and edited the seventh and eighth editions of Gray's Manual of Botany. Fernald coauthored the book Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America in 1919–1920 with Alfred Kinsey, which was published in 1943.
Edmund Ware Sinnott was an American botanist and educator. Sinnott is best known for his work in plant morphology.
Otto Stapf FRS was an Austrian born botanist and taxonomist, the son of Joseph Stapf, who worked in the Hallstatt salt-mines. He grew up in Hallstatt and later published about the archaeological plant remains from the Late Bronze- and Iron Age mines that had been uncovered by his father.
Galium album, the white bedstraw or hedge bedstraw, is a herbaceous annual plant of the family Rubiaceae.
Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper was a German botanist and phytogeographer who made major contributions in the fields of histology, ecology and plant geography. He travelled to South East Asia and the Caribbean as part of the 1899 deep-sea expedition. He coined the terms tropical rainforest and sclerophyll and is commemorated in numerous specific names.
Galium suecicum or Swedish bedstraw is a plant species of the Rubiaceae. It is native to central and southern Sweden, and has also been collected in Germany.
Friedrich Karl Max Vierhapper was an Austrian plant collector, botanist and professor of botany at the University of Vienna. He was the son of amateur botanist Friedrich Vierhapper (1844–1903), botanical abbreviation- "F.Vierh.".
Galium glabrescens is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family known by the common name Castle Lake bedstraw. It is native to the mountains of far northern California and southern Oregon, including the Klamath Mountains.
Professor Karl Heinz Rechinger HonFRSE was an Austrian botanist and phytogeographer.
Ernest Mayer was a Slovenian botanist
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Frederick Charles Newcombe (1858–1927) was an American botanist, and the first editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Botany
Harley Harris Bartlett was an American botanist, biochemist, and anthropologist. He was an expert in tropical botany and an authority on Batak language and culture. The standard author abbreviation Bartlett is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
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