Karl Moritz Schumann (17 June 1851 – 22 March 1904) 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 ...

. Schumann was born in

Görlitz Görlitz (; pl, Zgorzelec, hsb, Zhorjelc, cz, Zhořelec, :de:Ostlausitzer Mundart, East Lusatian dialect: ''Gerlz'', ''Gerltz'', ''Gerltsch'') is a town in the Germany, German state of Saxony. It is located on the Lusatian Neisse River, and ...

. He was curator of the Botanisches Museum in

Berlin-Dahlem Dahlem ( or ) is a locality of the Steglitz-Zehlendorf borough in southwestern Berlin. Until Berlin's 2001 administrative reform it was a part of the former borough of Zehlendorf. It is located between the mansion settlements of Grunewald and L ...

from 1880 until 1894. He also served as the first chairman of the ''Deutsche Kakteen-Gesellschaft'' (German Cactus Society) which he founded on 6 November 1892. He died in Berlin. Karl Moritz Schumann participated as a collaborator in '' Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien'' by Adolf Engler and K. A. E. Prantl and in '' Flora Brasiliensis'' by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius. The genera ''

Schumannianthus ''Schumannianthus'' is a group of plants in the Marantaceae described as a genus in 1904. ''Schumannianthus dichotomus'' is cultivated in riverine areas of South Asia and Southeast Asia for making Shital pati, mats that feel cool to the touch, ...

'' ( Gagnepain), ''

Schumanniophyton ''Schumanniophyton'' is a genus of three species of small tree native to west Africa and belonging to the family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species and varieties: * '' Schumanniophyton hirsutum'' (Hiern) R.D.Good, native from W. Central ...

'' ( Harms), '' Schumannia'' ( Kuntze) and several species were named after him, including:

Bibliography

* Schumann, K. M., "''Gesamtbeschreibung der Kakteen''" (Complete description of cacti), 1898. * Schumann, K. M., et al., "''Kakteen (Iconographia Cactacearum) im Auftrage der Deutschen Kakteen-Gesellschaft''", 1900–1921. * Schumann, K. M., "''Praktikum für morphologische und systematische Botanik''", 1904.

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1851 births 1904 deaths 19th-century German botanists People from Görlitz University of Breslau alumni Members of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina {{Germany-botanist-stub