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Declieuxia Marioides
''Declieuxia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is found in tropical America. Species *'' Declieuxia aspalathoides'' Müll.Arg. *'' Declieuxia cacuminis'' Müll.Arg. *'' Declieuxia coerulea'' Gardner *'' Declieuxia cordigera'' Mart. ex Zucc. *'' Declieuxia dasyphylla'' K.Schum. ex Steyerm. *'' Declieuxia decumbens'' J.H.Kirkbr. *'' Declieuxia deltoidea'' Müll.Arg. *'' Declieuxia diamantinae'' J.H.Kirkbr. *'' Declieuxia diantheroides'' Standl. *'' Declieuxia dusenii'' Standl. *'' Declieuxia fruticosa'' (Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.) Kuntze *'' Declieuxia gracilis'' J.H.Kirkbr. *'' Declieuxia hatschbachii'' J.H.Kirkbr. *'' Declieuxia humilis'' ( Müll.Arg.) J.H.Kirkbr. *'' Declieuxia irwinii'' J.H.Kirkbr. *'' Declieuxia juniperina'' A.St.-Hil. *'' Declieuxia lancifolia'' J.H.Kirkbr. *'' Declieuxia leiophylla'' Müll.Arg. *'' Declieuxia lysimachioides'' Zucc. *'' Declieuxia marioides'' Mart. ex Zucc. *'' Declieuxia muscosa'' A.St.-Hil. *''Dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Sigismund Kunth
Carl Sigismund Kunth (18 June 1788 – 22 March 1850) was a German botanist. He was also known as Karl Sigismund Kunth or anglicized as Charles Sigismund Kunth. He was one of the early systematic botanists who focused on studying the plants of the Americas. Kunth's notable contributions include the publication of ''Nova genera et species plantarum quas in peregrinatione ad plagam aequinoctialem orbis novi collegerunt Bonpland et Humboldt''. This work spanned seven volumes and was published between 1815 and 1825. Early life Kunth was born in Leipzig, Saxony, in modern-day Germany. His uncle, Gottlob Johann Christian Kunth, was a politician and educator who tutored both the explorer Alexander von Humboldt and his older brother, the diplomat Wilhelm von Humboldt, as children. Growing up, Kunth's father didn't have enough money for him to continue studying at the Leipzig Rathsschule. His uncle paid for him to move to Berlin, then a part of Prussia, and take a position at the Pru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Declieuxia Decumbens
''Declieuxia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is found in tropical America. Species *'' Declieuxia aspalathoides'' Müll.Arg. *'' Declieuxia cacuminis'' Müll.Arg. *'' Declieuxia coerulea'' Gardner *'' Declieuxia cordigera'' Mart. ex Zucc. *'' Declieuxia dasyphylla'' K.Schum. ex Steyerm. *'' Declieuxia decumbens'' J.H.Kirkbr. *'' Declieuxia deltoidea'' Müll.Arg. *'' Declieuxia diamantinae'' J.H.Kirkbr. *'' Declieuxia diantheroides'' Standl. *'' Declieuxia dusenii'' Standl. *'' Declieuxia fruticosa'' (Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.) Kuntze *'' Declieuxia gracilis'' J.H.Kirkbr. *'' Declieuxia hatschbachii'' J.H.Kirkbr. *'' Declieuxia humilis'' ( Müll.Arg.) J.H.Kirkbr. *'' Declieuxia irwinii'' J.H.Kirkbr. *'' Declieuxia juniperina'' A.St.-Hil. *'' Declieuxia lancifolia'' J.H.Kirkbr. *'' Declieuxia leiophylla'' Müll.Arg. *'' Declieuxia lysimachioides'' Zucc. *''Declieuxia marioides'' Mart. ex Zucc. *'' Declieuxia muscosa'' A.St.-Hil. *''Decl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Ernst Otto Kuntze
Carl Ernst Otto Kuntze (23 June 1843 – 27 January 1907) was a German botanist. Biography Otto Kuntze was born in Leipzig. An apothecary in his early career, he published an essay entitled ''Pocket Fauna of Leipzig''. Between 1863 and 1866, he worked as tradesman in Berlin and traveled through central Europe and Italy. From 1868 to 1873, he had his own factory for essential oils and attained a comfortable standard of living. Between 1874 and 1876, he traveled around the world: the Caribbean, United States, Japan, China, Southeast Asia, Arabian peninsula and Egypt. The journal of these travels was published as "Around the World" (1881). From 1876 to 1878, he studied Natural Science in Berlin and Leipzig and gained his doctorate in Freiburg with a monography of the genus ''Cinchona''. He edited the botanical collection from his world voyage encompassing 7,700 specimens in Berlin and Kew Gardens. The publication came as a shock to botany, since Kuntze had entirely revised taxonom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef August Schultes
Josef (Joseph) August Schultes (15 April 1773 in Vienna – 21 April 1831 in Landshut) was an Austrian botanist and professor from Vienna. Together with Johann Jacob Roemer (1763–1819), he published the 16th edition of Linnaeus' ''Systema Vegetabilium''. In 1821, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He was the father of Julius Hermann Schultes (1804–1840). In 1796, he received his doctorate at Vienna, where he was a student of Johann Peter Frank (1745–1821). Later on, he served as a professor of botany and natural history at the Theresianum in Vienna, followed by professorships at the Universities of Krakow (1806) and Innsbruck (1808). In 1809, he succeeded Franz von Paula Schrank (1747–1835) at the University of Landshut as a professor of natural history and botany. At Landshut, he also served as a medical director. Swedish botanist Carl Peter Thunberg commissioned Schultes to edit the first complete edition of his Flora Capens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Jakob Roemer
Johann Jacob Roemer (8 January 1763, Zürich – 15 January 1819) was a Swiss physician and professor of botany in Zürich, Switzerland. He was also an entomologist. With Austrian botanist Joseph August Schultes, he published the 16th edition of Carl Linnaeus' ''Systema Vegetabilium''. Roemer's ''Genera insectorum'' is a most attractive Swiss publication on entomology. The splendid hand-coloured plates were drawn and engraved by the Swiss artist J.R. Schellenberg, an entomologist himself and therefore familiar with structural details. In 1793, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The botanical genus ''Roemeria'' from the family Papaveraceae is named after him. Works *''Magazin für die Botanik'', vols. 1–4; 1787–1791, with publicist Paul Usteri (1768-1831). Afterwards Roemer continued this series as ''Neues Magazin für die Botanik''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Ludwig Von Willdenow
Carl Ludwig Willdenow (22 August 1765 – 10 July 1812) was a German botanist, pharmacist, and plant taxonomist. He is considered one of the founders of phytogeography, the study of the geographic distribution of plants. Willdenow was also a mentor of Alexander von Humboldt, one of the earliest and best known phytogeographers. He also influenced Christian Konrad Sprengel, who pioneered the study of plant pollination and floral biology. Biography Willdenow was born in Berlin and studied medicine and botany at the University of Halle. After studying pharmaceutics at Wieglieb College, Langensalza and in medicine at Halle, he returned to Berlin to work at his father's pharmacy located in the Unter den Linden. His early interest in botany was kindled by his uncle J. G. Gleditsch and he started a herbarium collection in his teenage years. In 1794, he became a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. He was a director of the Botanical garden of Berlin from 1801 until his deat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Declieuxia Dusenii
''Declieuxia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is found in tropical America. Species *'' Declieuxia aspalathoides'' Müll.Arg. *'' Declieuxia cacuminis'' Müll.Arg. *'' Declieuxia coerulea'' Gardner *'' Declieuxia cordigera'' Mart. ex Zucc. *'' Declieuxia dasyphylla'' K.Schum. ex Steyerm. *''Declieuxia decumbens'' J.H.Kirkbr. *'' Declieuxia deltoidea'' Müll.Arg. *'' Declieuxia diamantinae'' J.H.Kirkbr. *'' Declieuxia diantheroides'' Standl. *'' Declieuxia dusenii'' Standl. *'' Declieuxia fruticosa'' (Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.) Kuntze *''Declieuxia gracilis'' J.H.Kirkbr. *''Declieuxia hatschbachii'' J.H.Kirkbr. *''Declieuxia humilis'' ( Müll.Arg.) J.H.Kirkbr. *''Declieuxia irwinii'' J.H.Kirkbr. *'' Declieuxia juniperina'' A.St.-Hil. *'' Declieuxia lancifolia'' J.H.Kirkbr. *'' Declieuxia leiophylla'' Müll.Arg. *'' Declieuxia lysimachioides'' Zucc. *''Declieuxia marioides'' Mart. ex Zucc. *'' Declieuxia muscosa'' A.St.-Hil. *''Declieuxi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Carpenter Standley
Paul Carpenter Standley (March 21, 1884 – June 2, 1963) was an American botanist known for his work on neotropical plants. Biography Standley was born on March 21, 1884, in Avalon, Missouri. He attended Drury College in Springfield, Missouri, and New Mexico State College, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1907, and received a master's degree from New Mexico State College in 1908. He remained at New Mexico State College as an assistant from 1908 to 1909. He was the assistant curator of the Division of Plants at the Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum from 1909 to 1922. He wrote "Flora of Barro Colorado Island, Panama" in May 1927. In the spring of 1928, he took a position at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, where worked until 1950. While at the Field Museum he did fieldwork in Guatemala between 1938 and 1941. After his retirement in 1950, he moved to the ''Escuela Agricola Panamericana'' in Honduras, where he worked in the library and he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
