Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer (19 December 1829, in

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– 16 February 1927, in

), was a

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n taxonomist and botanist. Radlkofer became a physician in 1854 and earned a PhD in botany at

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the following year. He became an associate professor of botany at the

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in 1859 as well as deputy director of the

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and

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. In 1892 he was named director of the Botanical Museum. He was made

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in 1913 and died in 1927 in the same room in which he was born. Radlkofer's main work was on the family

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. His collections, sent by botanists from all over the world, are housed in Munich. The South African flower ''

Greyia radlkoferi ''Greyia radlkoferi'', the woolly bottlebrush or Natal bottlebrush, is a shrub or small tree, native to South Africa. It grows up to 5 metres in height and has smooth yellowish bark, becoming grey and deeply furrowed as it matures. The leaves ar ...

'' is named for him, as are the South American based genera of '' Radlkoferotoma'', and '' Radlkofera'', a

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genus of

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s from Africa belonging to the family

. The former genus ''

Radlkoferella ''Pouteria'' is a genus of flowering trees in the gutta-percha family, Sapotaceae. The genus is widespread throughout the tropical regions of the world. It includes the canistel ('' P. campechiana''), the mamey sapote ('' P. sapota''), and the ...

'' (a

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) is now called ''

Pouteria ''Pouteria'' is a genus of flowering trees in the gutta-percha family, Sapotaceae. The genus is widespread throughout the tropical regions of the world. It includes the canistel ('' P. campechiana''), the mamey sapote ('' P. sapota''), and the l ...

'',.

Published works

Among his numerous written works are treatises published in English, such as: * "Three new species of Sapindaceae from western Mexico and Lower California", (1895). * "New and noteworthy Hawaiian plants", (1911). * "New Sapindaceae from Panama and Costa Rica", (1914). His other principal works include: * ''Die Befruchtung der Phanerogamen. Ein Beitrag zur Entscheidung des darüber bestehenden Streites'', (1856). * ''Der Befruchtungsprocess im Pflanzenreiche und sein Verhältniss zu dem im Thierreiche'', (1857). * ''Ergänzungen zur Monographie der Sapindaceen-Gattung Serjania'', (1875). * ''Ueber die Sapindaceen Holländisch-Indiens'', (1877). * ''Sapindaceae'' (issued in eight parts 1931-1934); In: Engler's ''

Das Pflanzenreich Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler (25 March 1844 – 10 October 1930) was a German botanist. He is notable for his work on plant taxonomy and phytogeography, such as ''Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien'' (''The Natural Plant Families''), edited with ...

''.Most widely held works about L Radlkofer
WorldCat Identities

References

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List of Plants described and co-described by Radlkofer. 19th-century German botanists German taxonomists 1829 births 1927 deaths Scientists from Munich Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich faculty {{Germany-botanist-stub