Georg Carl Wilhelm Vatke
Georg Carl Wilhelm Vatke (12 August 1849, Berlin – 6 April 1889, Berlin) was a German botanist who collected spermatophytes during 1868–1876 in Austria, Germany, Madagascar and Angola. He was an assistant at the botanical gardens in Berlin during 1876–1879, and later became a private scholar.
The botanical genus Vatkea was named in his honor by Karl August Otto Hoffmann in 1880.[1]
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- 1849 births
- 1889 deaths