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Pullea (plant)
''Pullea'' is a genus of trees of the family Cunoniaceae, with species found growing naturally in New Guinea, Fiji, and the Queensland tropical rain forests, wet tropical rainforests of north eastern Queensland, Australia. Three species are accepted. * ''Pullea glabra'' – Fiji, New Guinea, and possibly Morotai in the Maluku Islands * ''Pullea mollis'' – eastern New Guinea * ''Pullea stutzeri'' – Queensland wet tropical rainforests endemic, Australia References Australian Plant Name Index (APNI): ''Pullea'' Pullea (plant), Oxalidales genera Taxa described in 1914 Taxa named by Rudolf Schlechter {{Oxalidales-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Schlechter
Friedrich Richard Rudolf Schlechter (16 October 1872 – 16 November 1925) was a German taxonomist, botanist, and author of several works on orchids. He went on botanical expeditions in Africa, Indonesia, New Guinea, South and Central America and Australia. His vast herbarium was destroyed during the bombing of Berlin in 1945. Early life Rudolf Schlechter was born on 16 October 1872 in Berlin, the third of six children; his father Hugo Schlechter was a lithographer. After finishing school at the Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium he started a horticulture education at a gardening market. He later worked at the University of Berlin garden. There he worked as an assistant till the autumn of 1891. His brother was Max Schlechter (1874–1960), was a German trader and collector of natural history specimens. Career Schlechter began his career of botanical fieldwork by leaving Europe in 1891 to journey to Africa; he later traveled across Indonesia and Australia. Throughout his care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
