William Baeuerlen was a German botanical collector and explorer.
He was born in
Niedernhall
Niedernhall () is a town in the Hohenlohe district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the river Kocher, 6 km west of Künzelsau, and 33 km northeast of Heilbronn
Heilbronn () is a city in northern Baden-Württemberg ...
as Leonhard Carl Wilhelm Bäuerlen. He became
Ferdinand von Mueller's botanical collector in Australia from the 1880s, and later the collector for
Joseph Maiden
Joseph Henry Maiden (25 April 1859 – 16 November 1925) was a botanist who made a major contribution to knowledge of the Australian flora, especially the genus ''Eucalyptus''. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation when citing ...
in
Sydney.
Baeuerlen travelled extensively in eastern Australia, particularly in
New South Wales
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, collecting many thousands of specimens. There are 4,404 records currently attributed to Baeuerlen. He was part of the
Bonito Exploration of 1885 to
New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Australia by the wide Torr ...
.
In 1891 he published a book "Wildlfowers of New South Wales", co-authored by Gertrude Lovegrove.
His name is honoured as
specific epithets in several species. Such as
Correa baeuerlenii,
Eucalyptus baeuerlenii and
Acacia baeuerlenii.
References
1840 births
1917 deaths
Botanical collectors active in Australia
20th-century Australian botanists
19th-century German botanists
German emigrants to Australia
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