Alberto Vojtěch Frič (, 8 September 1882

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– 4 December 1944 Prague) was a famous Czech

botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

, ethnographer, writer and explorer. He undertook 8 voyages to America, discovered, described and catalogued many

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. South American Indians called him ''Karaí Pukú'' (engl. Long Hunter); in Europe he became known as Cactus Hunter.

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* '' Lophophora alberto-vojtechii'' * '' Lophophora fricii'' * ''Stenocereus fricii'' * ''Cleistocactus strausii var. fricii'' * '' Notocactus fricii'' synonymum ''Malacocarpus fricii'', ''Wigginsia fricii'' * '' Airampoa'' * '' Chaffeyopuntia'' * '' Pseudotephrocactus'' * '' Salmiopuntia'' * '' Subulatopuntia'' * '' Weberiopuntia''

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