Ludwig Eduard Theodor Lösener (23 November 1865 – 2 June 1941) was a German botanist who collected widely in the field in Germany:
Amrum island (1912), the
Alps, the
Black Forest,
Bavaria,
Rügen island and
Tyrol in modern Austria. His speciality was the
Aquifoliaceae of the world. He also studied
cultivars of ''
Ilex'' species. His name is often spelled as 'Loesener' in English sources.
In 1941, botanist
Albert Charles Smith
Albert Charles Smith (April 5, 1906 – May 23, 1999) was an American botanist who served as director of the National Museum of Natural History and Arnold Arboretum and was the former president of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists.
Life
S ...
published a genus of
flowering plants belonging to the family
Celastraceae, as ''
Loeseneriella
''Loeseneriella'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Celastraceae.
Its native range is Tropical and Subtropical Old World. It is found in the countries and regions of Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Bismarck Arc ...
'' in his honour.
Works
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Abbreviation
The abbreviation Loes. is used to indicate Ludwig Eduard Theodor Lösener as an authority in the description and scientific classification of plants. The
International Plant Names Index lists more than 1800
taxa attributed Lösener.
References
External links
Ludwig Eduard Theodor Loesener on Wikispecies
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Botanists with author abbreviations
1865 births
1941 deaths
20th-century German botanists
19th-century German botanists