Karl Suessenguth (22 June 1893,

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– 7 April 1955,

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) was a German botanist. He studied under

Karl Ritter von Goebel Karl Immanuel Eberhard Ritter von Goebel FRS FRSE (8 March 1855, Billigheim, Baden – 9 October 1932, Munich) was a German botanist. His main fields of study were comparative functional anatomy, morphology, and the developmental physiology of p ...

at the

University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: link=no, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Originally established as the University of ...

, where in 1927 he became a professor of botany. From 1927 to 1955 he was

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of the ''

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''.CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms
by Umberto Quattrocchi As a

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, he classified many plants within the family

Amaranthaceae Amaranthaceae is a family of flowering plants commonly known as the amaranth family, in reference to its type genus '' Amaranthus''. It includes the former goosefoot family Chenopodiaceae and contains about 165 genera and 2,040 species, making i ...

. The botanical genera ''

Suessenguthia ''Suessenguthia'' is a genus of the Acanthaceae plant family comprising six species of shrubs with showy, tubular flowers arranged in few-flowered heads. It occurs in the lowlands and Andean foothills of southern Peru, Bolivia, and the Brazilian ...

'' (family

Acanthaceae Acanthaceae is a family (the acanthus family) of dicotyledonous flowering plants containing almost 250 genera and about 2500 species. Most are tropical herbs, shrubs, or twining vines; some are epiphytes. Only a few species are distributed in ...

) and ''

Suessenguthiella ''Suessenguthiella'' is a genus of plant in family Molluginaceae The Molluginaceae are a family of flowering plants recognized by several taxonomists. It was previously included in the larger family Aizoaceae. The APG III system of 2009 made ...

'' (family

Molluginaceae The Molluginaceae are a family of flowering plants recognized by several taxonomists. It was previously included in the larger family Aizoaceae. The APG III system of 2009 made no change in the status of the family as compared to the APG II syst ...

) commemorate his name.

Written works

He was an editor of the multi-volume ''Illustrierte Flora von Mittel-Europa'' (Illustrated Flora of Central Europe) and the author of the following works: * "Amarantaceae of southeastern Polynesia" (in English) Honolulu, Hawaii, The Museum, 1936. * ''Neue Ziele der Botanik'', 1938 – New objectives of botany. * ''Ueber einige amerikanische "Amarantaceae" und "Rhamnaceae"'', 1939 – On American Amarantaceae und

Rhamnaceae The Rhamnaceae are a large family of flowering plants, mostly trees, shrubs, and some vines, commonly called the buckthorn family. Rhamnaceae is included in the order Rosales. The family contains about 55 genera and 950 species. The Rhamnaceae ...

.
''Mitteilungen Der Botanischen Staatssammlung München''
(as editor) – Journal of the

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Suessenguth, Karl 1893 births 1955 deaths Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich faculty 20th-century German botanists People from Bad Kissingen (district) German taxonomists