Christoph Friedrich Otto (4 December 1783 – 7 December 1856) was a German gardener and botanist. He was born in

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. From 1805 to 1843 he was inspector of the Botanical Garden in Berlin. Together with Albert Gottfried Dietrich (1795–1856), he edited the ''Allgemeinen Gartenzeitung'' from 1833 until his death in 1856 in

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. The genus of plants '' Ottoa'' H. B. K. is named after him. As a

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, he was the binomial authority/co-authority of many species, including numerous plants within the family

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Published works

* ''Abbildung der fremden in Deutschland ausdauernden Holzarten'', 1819–1830 (with

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and Friedrich Gottlob Hayne). * ''Abbildungen auserlesener Gewächse des königlichen botanischen Gartens'', 1820–1828 (with Heinrich Friedrich Link) - Illustrations of plants from the royal botanical gardens. * ''Abbildungen neuer und seltener Gewächse …'', 1828–1831 (with Heinrich Friedrich Link) - Illustrations of new and rare plants. * ''Abbildung und Beschreibung blühender Cacteen'', 1838–1850 (with

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) - Illustrations and descriptions of blooming cacti. * "Icones plantarum rariorum horti Regii Botanici Berolinensis" - (Illustrations of rare plants of the royal botanical gardens), 1840–1844 (with Heinrich Friedrich Link and Johann Friedrich Klotzsch).Hathitrust
Icones plantarum rariorum horti Regii Botanici Berolinensis

References

* List of published works copied from text of an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia. {{DEFAULTSORT:Otto, Christoph Friedrich 19th-century German botanists 1783 births 1856 deaths German gardeners People from Schneeberg, Saxony