Hermann Otto Sleumer (February 21, 1906 in
Saarbrücken
Saarbrücken (; Rhenish Franconian: ''Sabrigge'' ; ; ; ; ) is the capital and largest List of cities and towns in Germany, city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken has 181,959 inhabitants and is Saarland's administrative, commerci ...
– October 1, 1993 in
Oegstgeest
Oegstgeest () is a town and municipality in the province of South Holland in the western Netherlands. Its population was in .
Etymology
The portion ''geest'' in the name refers to the Geest, geest lands, which were excavated in the seventeent ...
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[ was a Dutch ]botanist
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of German
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birth.[ The plant genera '']Sleumerodendron
''Sleumerodendron'' is a monotypic genus of plant in the family Proteaceae. The sole species is ''Sleumerodendron austrocaledonicum''.
This species is endemic to New Caledonia. It is closely related to '' Turrillia'' (Vanuatu, Fiji) and '' Kerma ...
'' Virot (Proteaceae
The Proteaceae form a family (biology), family of flowering plants predominantly distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. The family comprises 83 genus, genera with about 1,660 known species. Australia and South Africa have the greatest concentr ...
) and '' Sleumeria'' Utteridge, Nagam. & Teo (Icacinaceae
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consisting of trees, shrub ...
), are named for him.
References
1906 births
1993 deaths
Dutch people of German descent
People from Saarbrücken
20th-century Dutch botanists
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