Georg Friedrich Kaulfuss (8 April 1786 – 9 December 1830) was a professor at Halle. He described the

pteridophyte A pteridophyte is a vascular plant (with xylem and phloem) that disperses spores. Because pteridophytes produce neither flowers nor seeds, they are sometimes referred to as "cryptogams", meaning that their means of reproduction is hidden. Ferns, ...

s collected by

Adelbert von Chamisso Adelbert von Chamisso (; 30 January 178121 August 1838) was a German poet and botanist, author of ''Peter Schlemihl'', a famous story about a man who sold his shadow. He was commonly known in French as Adelbert de Chamisso (or Chamissot) de Bonc ...

, and he named the fern ''Cibotium chamissoi'' after him. The genus ''

Kaulfussia ''Christensenia'' is a genus of ferns in the botanical family Marattiaceae. The genus is confined to the Indo-Malayan region. The basal chromosome number for this genus is 2n=80. ''Christensenia'' is unique in the Marattiaceae, because of its ...

'' is named for Kaulfuss. In 1816 he obtained his doctorate from the

University of Halle Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (german: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), also referred to as MLU, is a public, research-oriented university in the cities of Halle and Wittenberg and the largest and oldest university i ...

, where in 1823 he became a full professor of

botany Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek w ...

Plants Named by Kaulfuss

More than 200 plant names were published by Kaulfuss.Kaulfuss, Georg Friedrich (names)
Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 01 Feb 2012 These include the genera: * *''

Cochlidium ''Cochlidium'' is a genus of ferns belonging to the family Polypodiaceae Polypodiaceae is a family of ferns. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), the family includes around 65 genera and an estimated 1,650 specie ...

'' * *'' Balantium'' * Plant families named by Kaulfuss include: *

Marattiaceae Marattiaceae is the only family of extant (living) ferns in the order Marattiales. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), Marattiales is the only order in the subclass Marattiidae. The family has six genera and about ...

Cyatheaceae The Cyatheaceae are a family of ferns, the scaly tree ferns, one of eight families in the order Cyatheales in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I). Alternatively, the family may defined much more broadly (Cyatheaceae '' ...

Works by Kaulfuss

*Kaulfuss, Georg Friedrich. ''Enumeratio Filicum''. 1824.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kaulfuss, Georg Friedrich Pteridologists 19th-century German botanists 1830 deaths 1786 births University of Halle faculty University of Halle alumni