Wilhelm (Guillermo) Gustav Franz Herter (10 January 1884 in

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci ...

– 17 April 1958 in

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) was a German botanist and mycologist. In 1908 he received his doctorate in Berlin with a dissertation on the genus ''

Lycopodium ''Lycopodium'' (from Greek ''lykos'', wolf and ''podion'', diminutive of ''pous'', foot) is a genus of clubmosses, also known as ground pines or creeping cedars, in the family Lycopodiaceae. Two very different circumscriptions of the genus are i ...

''. From 1923 to 1939 he lived and worked in

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, gaining Uruguayan citizenship in 1925. In Montevideo, he was associated with its botanical garden and museum, and in the meantime taught classes at the

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. In 1934 he became director of the ''Revista Sudamericana de Botánica''.JSTOR Global Plants
biography During the Second World War, Herter was the director of the nazi-german publishing series 'Veröffentlichungen der Staatlichen Botanischen Anstalten des Generalgouvernements". Known for his work in the fields of systematics and

taxonomy Taxonomy is the practice and science of categorization or classification. A taxonomy (or taxonomical classification) is a scheme of classification, especially a hierarchical classification, in which things are organized into groups or types. ...

, he is credited with identifying more than 200 species new to science. He was a leading expert on the botanical order

Lycopodiales The Lycopodiaceae (class Lycopodiopsida, order Lycopodiales) are an old family of vascular plants, including all of the core clubmosses and firmosses, comprising 16 accepted genera and about 400 known species. This family originated about 380 mil ...

. Taxa with the specific epithet of ''herteri'' are named in his honor, an example being the mycological species ''Tulostoma herteri''.

Selected works

* "Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Gattung Lycopodium", 1908. * "Plantae Uruguayenses", (with Cornelius Osten), 1925. * "Estudios botanicos en la region Uruguaya", 1927. * "Flora ilustrada del Uruguay", 1939. * "Systema Lycopodiorum" 1950.OCLC Classify
published works

References

External links

IPNI
List of plants described & co-described by Herter. {{DEFAULTSORT:Herter, Wilhelm Gustav Franz 1884 births 1958 deaths Scientists from Berlin 20th-century German botanists German mycologists German expatriates in Uruguay Uruguayan botanists