Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne

Summary

Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne (12 February 1848 – 12 October 1918) was a German botanist and dendrologist born near Striegau, a town known today as Strzegom, Poland.

Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne

Koehne was a professor of botany in Berlin and was a leading authority of the plant family Lythraceae. In Adolf Engler's treatise Das Pflanzenreich ("The Plant Kingdom"), he was author of the chapter on Lythraceae. He also made important contributions involving Lythraceae to Engler and Karl Prantl's Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien ("The Natural Plant Families"), as well as to 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 edit

  • Robert Zander, Fritz Encke, Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold (eds.): Handbook of Plant Names 13th Edition. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5
  1. ^ "Koehneola Urb. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  2. ^ "Koehneria S.A.Graham, Tobe & Baas | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
  3. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Koehne.

External links edit

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