Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer (19 December 1829, in Munich – 16 February 1927, in Munich), was a Bavarian taxonomist and botanist. Radlkofer became a physician in 1854 and earned a

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in botany at

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the following year. He became an associate professor of botany at the

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in 1859 as well as deputy director of the

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botanical garden and herbarium. In 1892 he was named director of the Botanical Museum. He was made

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in 1913 and died in 1927 in the same room in which he was born. Radlkofer's main work was on the family

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. His collections, sent by botanists from all over the world, are housed in Munich. The South African flower '' Greyia radlkoferi'' is named for him, as are the South American based genera of '' Radlkoferotoma'', and '' Radlkofera'', a

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genus of

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s from Africa belonging to the family Sapindaceae. The former genus ''

Radlkoferella ''Lucuma'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Sapotaceae. It includes 19 species native to the tropical and subtropical Americas, from Mexico and Florida to southern Brazil and northern Chile. The canistel ('' L. campechiana''), and the ...

'' (a

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) is now called ''

Pouteria ''Pouteria'' is a genus of flowering plant, flowering trees in the gutta-percha family (biology), family, Sapotaceae. The genus is widespread throughout the tropical Americas, with outlier species in Cameroon and Malesia. It includes the canistel ...

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Published works

Among his numerous written works are treatises published in English, such as: * "Three new species of Sapindaceae from western Mexico and Lower California", (1895). * "New and noteworthy Hawaiian plants", (1911). * "New Sapindaceae from Panama and Costa Rica", (1914). His other principal works include: * ''Die Befruchtung der Phanerogamen. Ein Beitrag zur Entscheidung des darüber bestehenden Streites'', (1856). * ''Der Befruchtungsprocess im Pflanzenreiche und sein Verhältniss zu dem im Thierreiche'', (1857). * ''Ergänzungen zur Monographie der Sapindaceen-Gattung Serjania'', (1875). * ''Ueber die Sapindaceen Holländisch-Indiens'', (1877). * ''Sapindaceae'' (issued in eight parts 1931-1934); In: Engler's ''

Das Pflanzenreich Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler (25 March 1844 – 10 October 1930) was a German botanist. He is notable for his work on plant taxonomy and phytogeography, such as ''Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien'' (''The Natural Plant Families''), edited with ...

''.Most widely held works about L Radlkofer
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External links

IPNI
List of Plants described and co-described by Radlkofer.

19th-century German botanists People from the Kingdom of Bavaria German taxonomists 1829 births 1927 deaths Scientists from Munich Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich {{Germany-botanist-stub