Heidrun Hartmann, née Heidrun Elsbeth Klara Osterwald (born 5 August 1942 Kolberg; died 11 July 2016) was a

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botanist. She worked at the

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and specialised in

Aizoaceae The Aizoaceae, or fig-marigold family, is a large family of dicotyledonous flowering plants containing 135 genera and about 1800 species. They are commonly known as ice plants or carpet weeds. They are often called vygies in South Africa and New ...

Crassulaceae The Crassulaceae (from Latin ''crassus'', thick), also known as the stonecrop family or the orpine family, are a diverse family of dicotyledon flowering plants characterized by succulent leaves and a unique form of photosynthesis, known as Cr ...

, collected plants from Africa and South America. She was honoured in 1995 when botanist

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published '' Hartmanthus'' an African genus of tropical, succulent flowering plants in the family Aizoaceae.

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1942 births 2016 deaths People from Kołobrzeg Academic staff of the University of Hamburg 20th-century German botanists {{Germany-botanist-stub