Friedrich (Fritz) Wilhelm Ludwig Kränzlin (25 July 1847 – 9 March 1934) was a botanist associated with the
Natural History Museum (BM).
In the history of the European study of South African orchids, Fritz Kränzlin appears after
Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach
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describing many new orchids in the region, and revising some of the genera. His book ''Orchidacearum Genera et Species'' was never finished, but the volume containing the ''
Habenaria
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Disa
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'', and ''
Disperis
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genus
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was completed in 1901.
Publications
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Reichenbach, H. G. & Kraenzlin, W. L.:
''Xenia Orchidacea. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Orchideen''
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See also
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Taxa named by Friedrich Ludwig Kraenzlin
References
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1847 births
1934 deaths
19th-century German botanists
20th-century German botanists
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