Ernst Georg Pritzel (15 May 1875 – 6 April 1946) was a German

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

. He is known for his research in the fields of phytogeography and taxonomy. He contributed works on Lycopodiaceae, Psilotaceae and Pittosporaceae to Engler & Prantl’s "Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien".Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria, Australian National Herbarium
(biography) In 1900–02, with Ludwig Diels, he collected plants in South Africa,

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and New Zealand. They published the results of their expedition (a collection of 5700 species) in the ''Botanische Jahrbücher'' in 1904–05. Their findings included 235 new species. The fungi genus '' Pritzeliella'' was named after him by

Paul Christoph Hennings Paul Christoph Hennings (November 27, 1841 – October 14, 1908) was a German mycologist and herbarium curator. He discovered the study of cryptogams and mushrooms as a volunteer at the botanical garden. Although circumstances initially prevent ...

in 1903 and ''

Melaleuca pritzelii ''Melaleuca pritzelii'' is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It was originally named in 1923 by Karel Domin as a subspecies ''Melaleuca densa'' var. ''pritzelii'' but raised to specie ...

'' (originally ''Melaleuca densa'' var. ''pritzelii'') by Karel Domin in 1923.

Publications

*''Südwest-Australien'' (with Ludwig Diels) 1933 - Southwest Australia *''Lycopodiaceae'' (with H. Potonie) *''Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae occidentalis. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebens-Verhältnisse'' (with Ludwig Diels) 1905 - Contributions to the knowledge of Western Australian plants, their distribution and environment.WorldCat Identities
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pritzel, Ernst Georg 20th-century German botanists German phytogeographers 1875 births 1946 deaths Scientists from Berlin