Karlheinz Senghas (7 April 1928 – 4 February 2004) was a German botanist and

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. He was a curator, scientific director, and academic director of the University of Heidelberg's Botanical Garden from 1960 until his retirement in 1993. He was also president of the Deutsche Orchideen-Gesellschaft in the 1970s and was the co-publisher and editor of several volumes of ''Die Orchideen'', a continuation of the publication begun by

Rudolf Schlechter Friedrich Richard Rudolf Schlechter (16 October 1872 – 16 November 1925) was a German taxonomist, botanist, and author of several works on orchids. He went on botanical expeditions in Africa, Indonesia, New Guinea, South and Central America and ...

. He described his first orchid species, '' Aerangis buchlohii'' in 1962. Over the years, he contributed more than 300 publications on orchids and established 17 new orchid genera and 388 species. Several genera and species are named in his honor, including the orchid genera '' Senghasia'' and '' Senghasiella'' and the species '' Coryanthes senghasiana''. He died on 4 February 2004.

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*Obituary: ''Orchids'', 73(5): 328 (2004). 1928 births 2004 deaths 20th-century German botanists {{botanist-stub