Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne

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Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne

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,

External links

  • IPNI List of plants described and co-described by Koehne.