Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne
Appearance
Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne (12 February 1848 – 12 October 1918) was a German
Striegau
, a town known today as Strzegom, Poland.
Koehne was a professor of botany in
Karl Friedrich Philipp von Martius' Flora Brasiliensis
.
Another noted written effort by Koehne was the 1893 Deutsche Dendrologie ("German Dendrology").
Two plant genera have been named in his honor; Koehneola from Cuba, in the (family Asteraceae) was named in 1901,[1] and Koehneria from Madagascar, in the family Lythraceae in 1987.[2]
References
- Robert Zander, Fritz Encke, Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold (eds.): Handbook of Plant Names 13th Edition. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5
- ^ "Koehneola Urb. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
- ^ "Koehneria S.A.Graham, Tobe & Baas | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Koehne.
External links
- IPNI List of plants described and co-described by Koehne.