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Heinrich Zollinger (22 March 1818 – 19 May 1859) was a Swiss botanist. Zollinger was born in Feuerthalen, Switzerland. From 1837 to 1838 he studied botany at the University of Geneva under Augustin and Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, but had to interrupt his studies due to financial problems. In 1842 he moved to Java, working in a botanical garden, and on small government-financed scientific expeditions. He returned to Switzerland in 1848, but came back to Java in 1855 with his wife and two children. The species ''
Clavaria zollingeri ''Clavaria zollingeri'', commonly known as the violet coral or the magenta coral, is a widely distributed species of fungus. It produces striking tubular, purple to pinkish-violet fruit bodies that grow up to tall and wide. The extreme tips o ...
'' described scientifically by French mycologist
Joseph-Henri Léveillé Joseph-Henri Léveillé (28 May 1796 – 3 February 1870) was a French physician and mycologist who was a native of Crux-la-Ville, in the department of Nièvre. Léveillé studied medicine and mycology at the University of Paris, and in 1824 rece ...
in 1846 was named after Heinrich Zollinger, who researched the genus '' Clavaria'', and collected the type specimen in Java. Zollinger died in Kandangan, a village located near Mount Bromo in East Java, Indonesia. He had been suffering from the long-term effects of malaria.


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People from Feuerthalen 1818 births 1859 deaths 19th-century Swiss botanists Deaths from malaria {{Switzerland-botanist-stub