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Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne (12 February 1848 – 12 October 1918) was a German botanist and dendrologist born near Striegau, a town known today as Strzegom, Poland.
Koehne was a professor of botany in
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List of plants described and co-described by Koehne. 20th-century German botanists People from the Province of Silesia 1848 births 1918 deaths 19th-century German botanists People from Strzegom {{Germany-botanist-stub
Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne (12 February 1848 – 12 October 1918) was a German botanist and dendrologist born near Striegau, a town known today as Strzegom, Poland.
Koehne was a professor of botany 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 ...
and was a leading authority of the plant family Lythraceae. In Adolf Engler
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 ...
's treatise ''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 ...
'' ("The Plant Kingdom"), he was author of the chapter on Lythraceae. He also made important contributions involving Lythraceae to Engler and Karl Prantl's ''Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien
''Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien'' (1887–1915) by Adolf Engler (1844–1930) and Karl Anton Prantl is a complete revision of plant families down to generic level and often even further. As such it forms part of the Engler system of plant t ...
'' ("The Natural Plant Families"), as well as to Karl Friedrich Philipp von Martius' ''Flora Brasiliensis
''Flora Brasiliensis'' is a book published between 1840 and 1906 by the editors Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, August Wilhelm Eichler, Ignatz Urban and many others. It contains taxonomic treatments of 22,767 species, mostly Brazilian angiosp ...
''.
Another noted written effort by Koehne was the 1893 ''Deutsche Dendrologie'' ("German Dendrology
Dendrology ( grc, δένδρον, ''dendron'', "tree"; and grc, -λογία, ''-logia'', ''science of'' or ''study of'') or xylology ( grc, ξύλον, ''ksulon'', "wood") is the science and study of woody plants (trees, shrubs, and lianas), ...
").
Two plant genera have been named in his honor; '' Koehneola'' from Cuba, in the (family Asteraceae
The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae w ...
) was named in 1901, and ''Koehneria
''Koehneria'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Lythraceae. The only species is ''Koehneria madagascariensis''
It is native to Madagascar.
The genus name of ''Koehneria'' is in honour of Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koeh ...
'' from Madagascar, in the family Lythraceae in 1987.
References
* ''This article is based on a translation of an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia'', Source listed as: Robert Zander, Fritz Encke, Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold (eds.): Handbook of Plant Names . 13th Edition. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, .External links
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List of plants described and co-described by Koehne. 20th-century German botanists People from the Province of Silesia 1848 births 1918 deaths 19th-century German botanists People from Strzegom {{Germany-botanist-stub