Paul Hermann Wilhelm Taubert (12 August 1862 – 1 January 1897) was a German

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. Taubert was born in

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, where he studied botany as a pupil of

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. While a student, he collected plants in

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(1887). From 1889 to 1895 he was associated with the Botanical Museum in Berlin, working as a scientific assistant in 1893–95. Afterwards, he embarked on a botanical expedition to

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, where he conducted botanical investigations in the states of

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and Amazonas. He died in Manáos on 1 January 1897 (age 34).BHL
Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications He was the

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of many plant species. In 1893

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named the plant genus ''Taubertia'' (family

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) in his honor.

Selected works

* ''Monographie der gattung Stylosanthes''. Verh. Bot. Ver. Prov. Brandenb. v. 32, p. 1-34. (1890) – Monograph on the genus ''

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''.
''Leguminosae''
in: Natürliche Pflanzenfamilien. Vol. III, 3. (1891). * ''Leguminosae novae v. minus cognitae austro-americanae II'' ... Flora, v. 75, p. 68-86. (1892). * ''Plantae Glaziovianae novae vel minus cognitae IV'' ... Engler's Bot. Jahrb. v. 17, p. 502-526. (1893). * ''Beitrage zur kenntnis der flora des central- brasilianischen staates Goyaz'' ... Engler's Bot. Jahrb. v. 21, p. 401-457, pi. 2-3. (1895–96, with

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) – Contributions to the knowledge of flora of the central Brazilian state of

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.Catalogue of the botanical library of John Donnell Smith
by

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References

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