Karl Otto von Seemen
Karl Otto von Seemen (24 March 1838 - 20 September 1910) was a German botanist and horticulturalist. He is noted for his studies of plants in the south of Africa.
Plants studied[]
According to the International Plant Names Index (IPNI) some 109 plant names were published by Seemen, including species of Castanopsis, Fagus, Pyrola, Quercus and Salix[1]
Selected species[]
- (Caprifoliaceae) Viburnum (sect. Oreinotinus) seemenii Graebn.[2]
- (Potamogetonaceae) Potamogeton seemenii Asch. & Graebn.[3]
- (Ranunculaceae) Anemonoides × seemenii (Camus) Holub[4]
- (Salicaceae) Salix seemenii B.Fedtsch.[5]
Publications[]
1903. Salices Japonicæ, &c. (Leipzig, Gebrüder Borntraeger) 83 pp.[6]
References[]
- ^ Seemen, Karl Otto von (1838-1910) www.ipni.org, accessed 1 October 2020
- ^ Botanische Jahrbücher fur Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie xxxvii. p.435. 1906 (IK)
- ^ Synopsis der mitteleuropaïschen flora, Ascherson & Graebner, i. p.335. (IK)
- ^ Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 18(2): 206. 1983 (IK)
- ^ Rastit. Turkest. 298. 1915 (IK)
- ^ Salices Japonicae www.worldcat.org, accessed 1 October 2020
Categories:
- 19th-century German botanists
- 1838 births
- 1910 deaths